Re: Proposal, again: Disable autoload of compat_xyz modules

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:37:38AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:

>      Uh, that's not true.  If you store <module>.plist in the same
> directory with the module, it will be loaded and passed to the
> module to provide parameters.

Good to know.


> BTW, modules.conf isn't read by the kernel, it's read by
> /etc/rc.d/modules.  Putting anything in there that would have a
> lasting effect (i.e. parameters for autoloaded modules) would
> require quite a bit of work.

You could just store the parameters in the kernel so that a future
autoload will use these instead of or merged with the plist.


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