[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [announcement draft] New module-init-tools changes modprobe configuration file location

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>wrote:

> Allan McRae schrieb:
>
>> Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>
>>> The new module-init-tools 3.8 package changes the location of the
>>> configuration file: /etc/modprobe.conf is no longer read, instead
>>> /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf is used. Files without a .conf suffix in
>>> /etc/modprobe.d are ignored now.
>>>
>>
>> I think that they are not ignored this release, but a warning gets printed
>> about them every time a module gets loaded.  So how about:
>>
>> Warnings are now printed about files without a .conf suffix in
>> /etc/modprobe.d as these will no longer work with the next release.  This
>> will generate a lot of output on bootup if .pacsave files are left in this
>> folder.
>>
>
> Too long, how about "Files in /etc/modprobe.d without a .conf suffix will
> be ignored in the future."
>
> I noticed the warnings too, so will anyone else.
>
>
Just out of curiosity, why was that change made?
Isnt it a bit incosistent to all other *.d's? pacman.conf isnt in pacman.d,
logrotate.conf isnt in logrotate.d, rc.conf isnt in rc.d etc.
Are there plans to move those too?

-- 
Greg