modprobe.conf Syntax

[Tim Wunder]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 12:24 am, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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
>

This says, "off" is the same as (an alias for) "ehci-hcd,"  doesn't it? The 
other syntax you used would say "ehci-hcd" is the same as "off," which 
doesn't exist, hence the error.

> 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

I don't think you can turn things on and off with an alias line, can you?
/me reads man modprobe.conf...

Would "options ehci-hcd off" be what you want? 

Maybe "remove echi-hcd" to remove the module...

alias, though, would certainly seem not to be what you want...

Regards,
Tim

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