Kernel 2.6.0 (final/stable) is out

[Pu-239]

Fetch it at kernel.org. You will need to install module-init-tools and fetch some nVidia patches at minuet.org (might be wrong, google for it) .

Also, guess the release date for 2.8 here:

http://kernelpool.tummy.com/kernelpool/

[phongn]

Even with the new module-init-tools, 2.6 still won't properly autoload my modules. It is very annoying having to manually load up yenta_socket, ALSA and cardmgr.

[Pu-239]

What's wrong w/ manual loading in an init script? Memory usage is neglible. In debian,

For me, autoloading works for some things like the ppp compression modules, but it doesn't for the network card(which has to be manually loaded by putting the string 8139too in /etc/modules. It does work for cdrom/floppy and other stuff that access device files in /dev since I use devfs(with compatibility entries disabled since I'm a masochist who likes to fix everything that is broken as the result of this(though the autoloading works fine with it enabled))+devfsd+edited modprobe.conf- devfsd runs

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modprobe [device file name]

which loads the appropriate module or series of commands via aliases in modprobe.devfs(which is include[ed] into modprobe.conf). I have no idea if it works on static /dev configurations (manually unloading cdrom modules, mknod[ing] a device file for a cdrom outside of /dev, and dd[ing] from it apparently doesn't work though).

Oh, I forgot- modules.conf has been renamed to modprobe.conf (I'm not sure if the format changed though), which may need to be modified manually depending on distro.


Here's the /etc/init.d/module-init-tools startup script provided by Debian for loading modules listed in /etc/modules (though you can just edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.local (I think, since debian has a non-standard sysvinit scheme)).

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#!/bin/sh -e
                                                                                                                                                                                  
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
                                                                                                                                                                                  
# Silently exit if the kernel does not support modules or needs modutils.
[ -f /proc/modules -a ! -f /proc/ksyms ] || exit 0
[ -x /sbin/depmod ] || exit 0
                                                                                                                                                                                  
KVER=$(uname -r)
if [ ! -w /lib/modules/$KVER/ ]; then
        echo "Not running depmod because /lib/modules/$KVER/ is not writeable."
else
        run_depmod=yes
fi
                                                                                                                                                                                  
if [ "$run_depmod" ]; then
        echo -n "Calculating module dependencies... "
        depmod --quick
        echo "done."
fi
                                                                                                                                                                                  
# Loop over every line in /etc/modules.
echo 'Loading modules...'
grep '^[^#]' /etc/modules | \
while read module args; do
        [ "$module" ] || continue
        echo "    $module"
        modprobe $module $args || true
done
echo "All modules loaded."
                                                                                                                                                                                  
# Just in case a sysadmin prefers generic symbolic links in
# /lib/modules/boot for boot time modules we will load these modules.
if [ -n "$(modprobe --list --type boot)" ]; then
        modprobe --all --type boot '*'
fi
                                                                                                                                                                                  
exit 0

[Pu-239]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

They marked devfs as obsolete, and replaced it w/ udev, which is inferior since it cannot autoload modules, and is not even stable yet. F*CK! Well, I hope they don't purge it for awhile.