modprobe.conf Syntax

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:56:01PM -0800, Net Llama! took 0 lines to write:
> On 01/04/2006 10:25 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >After reading man 5 modprobe.conf, I'm not terribly enlightened. 
> >Can I still say
> >
> >alias ehci-hcd off
> >
> >to disable loading the ehci-hcd module?
> 
> yes

Eh, maybe not. With that specific syntax, I got an error that
modprobe couldn't find module "off". This didn't work either:

alias off ehci-hcd

Darned odd, because the man page says:

alias wildcard modulename

       This allows you to give alternate names for a module. For exam-
       ple: "alias my-mod really_long_modulename" means you can use
       "modprobe my-mod" instead of "modprobe really_long_modulename".

Go figure. I worked around it by not building the ehci_hcd module.

Kurt
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