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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:19:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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On 17 October 2011 09:15, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:35:35 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
>
>> preup() {
>> =A0 =A0 if [ "$IFACE" =3D eth0 ]; then
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ebegin "Reloading broadcom and tg3 modules"
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 modprobe -r foo bar &&
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 modprobe broadcom &&
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 modprobe tg3
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ewend $? "Failed to reload modules"
>> =A0 =A0 fi
>> =A0 =A0 return 0
>> }
>
> This seems more elegant than a separate init script, but do you want it
> to return 0 unconditionally? If the modules fail to load, surely you want
> the attempt to bring the interface up to abort?

In my head I find it less elegant to be honest.  Is it up to a network
configuration script to load the *kernel* module for the hardware?
--=20
Regards,
Mick