[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] removing load-modules.sh from udev

[Vytautas Stankevičius]

On Sunday 29 of May 2011 13:56:15 Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Auguste Pop <auguste at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> >> I have not found any uses of the MODULES array like you describe (if
> >> they exist they should be considered bugs though, the MODULES array
> >> was not meant to be used in this way). However, if anyone knows of
> >> any, then please let me know.
> > 
> > i'll really like to know what is the "meant" way of using MODULES
> > array in rc.conf?
> > 
> > in rc.conf shipped with initscripts 2011.05.2-1, it is stated clearly:
> > "MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist."
> > and all of a sudden, prefixing modules with ! in MODULES array to
> > blacklist the module at boot is considered improper use?
> 
> No. I was saying that only load-modules.sh/initscripts should parse
> the MODULES array directly (Oon-ee was suggesting that udev rules
> might rely on the MODULES array).
> 
> Once we make this change, then blacklisting in rc.conf will become
> unsupported and we would of course update the comment and make an
> announcement. It should be replaced by a native modprobe configuration
> file (see my previous email or "man modprobe.conf").

I seem to remember that the point of rc.conf was to configure system in one 
place. Looks like the politics are changing. Networking, hardwareclock, now 
modules. Locale next ?

Regards,