On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
... For order of preference, see module(7): The loader will look first for a built-in module with the specified name that has not been disabled (see module_unload() below). If a built-in module with that name is not found, the list of modules prepared by the boot loader is searched. If the named module is still not found, an attempt is made to locate the module within the file system.
There should be one additional qualification here.
Searching for modules within the file system can only occur after
the root file system has been mounted by the initialization code.
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