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

[Thomas Bächler]

Grigorios Bouzakis schrieb:
> 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?

In the past, they ignored /etc/modprobe.d when /etc/modprobe.conf was 
present. Then we patched it to always read both - and that was accepted 
upstream. I guess they were annoyed by it and thus made the config file 
locations consistent.

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