Re: Spawning modprobe for AX25?!

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:57:20 -0400 (EDT)

Because ifconfig is compiled to support them I suppose.. I would guess it
is probing for interfaces for them, this would seem to be the right thing
to do. I have now, however ran a strace so I'm unsure.

If you are seeing messages that it can't load them, and dont like it: Just
edit conf.modules to turn them off.

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Chip Salzenberg wrote:

> I configured 2.1.125 _not_ to include AX25, AppleTalk, or IPX.
> Yet for some reason, when /sbin/ifconfig tries to create sockets
> of those types, the kernel spawns "modprobe net-pf-[345]".
>
> Why? Those modules are never there!
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