On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 05:33:42PM -0500, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> >But you haven't _told_ modprobe about the dependencies involved here.
> >You're right that it can't be worked out automatically, but we have
> >static information in /etc/modules.conf; for example the post-install
> >and pre-remove options have the right functionality here, as I understand
> >the problem.
>
> I agree with you that the functionality is there. However, both the
> PPP driver and pppd have been written and documented in a way that
> means, as we both agree, that makes it hard or impossible to figure
> out the dependencies without hunting through the source code. I
> suspect that they are not alone in that trait. A tool like modprobe is
> not particularly useful if you can't figure out what to tell it.
Right. So this information should be in the sample modules.conf that
I think Keith Owens was talking about maintaining.. Keith?
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