[arch-general] modprobe changes

[Baho Utot]

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 19:05 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Baho Utot<baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> > I am getting a message on boot that I need to change the modules line in
> > rc.conf to the "new way" which is to put the conf file into modprobe.d.
> >
> > Is there any info on this?
> >
> > I have some modules I want to blacklist and some to load.
> >
> > Is the format the same as modprobe.conf? ( I presume )
> >
> > I take it I can just add a file like this
> >
> > net-pf-10.conf that contains
> >
> > blacklist net-pf-10
> 
> I think you're mistaken. Our modprobe doesn't have any message of the
> sort, relating to Arch. The error you are seeing is due to a change in
> the way modprobe parses config files. It used to read
> /etc/modprobe.conf and/or /etc/modprobe.d/* - now it only reads
> /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
> 
> The message is modprobe telling you something is wrong with the config
> files. Most likely you just have a .pacsav file in /etc/modprobe.d/

Yes I do have a .pacsav file in /etc/modprobe.conf

Any way I tried adding the filename.conf to modules I wanted blacklisted
or installed and it worked as well.