Kernel Modules

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Wed Aug 31 07:39:03 UTC 2005


On wo, 2005-08-31 at 08:07 +0200, Francis Viviers wrote:

> Im checking out a couple of things with ubuntu, when i
> cat /etc/modules there are like 5 modules in there to load at boot.
> Well when i do a lsmod there are tons of extra modules loaded and i
> was wondering what loads all of them. They are not module dependencies
> because some of them have nothing to do with the ones in the modules
> file.

hotplug, udev and hal are mainly responsible for this.
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Dennis K.
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