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Re: modules: which rpm?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Fri Nov 8 21:59:27 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 21:55:21 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
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Borg writes:
> David Foresman wrote:
> >
> > the modules rpm contains the programs that allow modules support in linux.
> > i.e. insmod, rmmod, lsmod, depmod and modprobe, amoung outhers.
>
> Yup, thanks, I figured it out. I recompile my kernel
> and made modular everything I possibly could.
>
> Monolitic kernel:
>
> 436154 Sep 8 17:34 vmlinuz
>
> Kernel with modules and with lots of new stuff:
>
> 294873 Nov 8 17:00 mvmlinuz
>
> 140KB difference! I didn't know it would be so different.
> Plus I have more free memory and certain things (that
> are modules now) seem to be loaded and accessed faster
> such as ZIP drive, PPP, CD-ROM, non Linux file systems...
> Kerneld is also a very good thing.
> Looks like I was wrong when aboput two months ago I flamed
> modules on this list (btw, no one objected anyway).
>
> Now, a question; below is my /etc/conf.modules. Does it
> look correct? Is that file essential for kerneld? I wrote
> it in pico because kerneld management tool in Control
> Panel was too confusing.
>
I have question here, maybe its a misunderstanding about what
you did. But it seems to me if you just built a new kernel
with all these things as modules, why did you put the alias
entries in /etc/conf.modules ? Kerneld should have loaded
and unloaded them automatically for you and these entries
below where unnecessary, that is assumming you built the
kernel to use kerneld. Anyone ?
> [vlad@borg /boot]$ cat /etc/conf.modules
> alias scsi_hostadapter ppa
> options cdrom sbpcd=1
> alias cdrom sbpcd
> alias plip plip
> alias dummy dummy
> alias net-pf-4 net-pf-4
> alias eth0 3c505 irq=12
> alias eql eql
> alias sd_mod sd_mod
> alias fat fat
> alias isofs isofs
> alias vfat vfat
> alias binfmt_aout binfmt_aout
> alias binfmt_aout binfmt_aout
> alias nfs nfs
> alias minix minix
> alias msdos msdos
> alias smbfs smbfs
> alias floppy floppy
> alias lp lp
> alias serial serial
> alias sound sound
> alias bsd_comp bsd_comp
> alias dummy dummy
> alias ppp ppp
> alias slhc slhc
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