From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev-197 USE=kmod
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:24:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc811o6AGdOQgqQ74CLyNWb5zXdVw11f=Y6Ubb73n6x88-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5104719B.3090201@binarywings.net>
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> Quick question: If I deactivate the kmod use flag in udev and keep
> sys-apps/module-init-tools, does udev still load modules or is kmod a
> required flag for that?
I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think so. The git repository has not a
single instance of the strings "modprobe" or "insmod", apparently the
only way to load modules in udev is to use kmod. I think the kmod
configure option (which is the one the USE flag activate/deactivate),
is for systems where all the modules are built-in, like embedded ones.
Unless udev has no other means to load modules, I think disabling kmod
assumes then that all the modules are built-in. And if you use
modules, may I ask why you would prefer module-init-tools over kmod?
Specially when the later is a drop-in, better supported replacement?
Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-27 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-27 0:15 [gentoo-user] udev-197 USE=kmod Florian Philipp
2013-01-27 2:24 ` Canek Peláez Valdés [this message]
2013-01-27 10:30 ` Florian Philipp
2013-01-27 11:33 ` Matthias Hanft
2013-01-27 13:55 ` Florian Philipp
2013-01-27 21:01 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-01-27 22:45 ` Florian Philipp
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