Re: [gentoo-user] openrc : autoload kernel modules

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be>]

On 12/14/2017 07:43:55 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 12/14/2017 12:43 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >
> > I have added the following lines to  /etc/conf.d/modules
> >
> > modules="enhanceio"
> > modules="enhanceio_lru"
> > modules="enhanceio_fifo"
> > modules="enhanceio_rand"
> >
> 
> "modules" is a variable name, and it's being overwritten on each line.
> The /etc/init.d/modules script does something like
> 
>   for module in $modules; do
>     load $module
>   done
> 
> but in your case, "modules" will contain only the last thing you set  
> it
> to, namely modules="enhanceio_rand".
> 


Many thanks, Michael and Mick.

It turned out that I had to write

modules="vboxdrv vboxnetflt vboxnetadp enhanceio enhanceio_lru  
enhanceio_fifo enhanceio_rand"

i.e. all modules in one string assignment to the variable 'modules'

Helmut