[H-GEN] Module Install

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Jason Parker wrote:

> I swear that if I *ever* get my hands on the author of modprobe,
> depmod, insmod, etc etc, then I will well and truly LART them
> something *shocking*.

Hehehe :)  His name is Bjorn Ekwall.  Quite a nice guy really (via email
anyway ;)  No I'm not going to tell you his email address (it isn't
exactly hidden :)
 
> What possessed him (assuming male programmer) to:
> 
>  o Let people use *two* configuration filenames, which are
>    functionally equivalent---I've yet to see the bit in the manpage
>    that clears up which one is checked first;

/etc/conf.modules was first.  This was confusing, so many of us
encouraged him to implement /etc/modules.conf too.  conf.modules is the
one used if both are present (as it was the original).

>  o *And* write the worst manual page, and README file I *have* *ever*
>    *seen*.  Ever.  Okay, okay, he might not speak English as a first 
>    language, but even a hard-core docofile like me balks at reading
>    the mangled sentences contained therein.

Hmm, that is interresting as his english is excellent :)
 
> \pant
> 
> If having modules was not so darn froody, then I'd bloody well do
> without, mostly from sheer spite.

I actually rarely use modules these days.   And me being partly
responsible for getting kerneld into the kernel too ;)
 
> \end{rant}
> 
> Of course, I *could* solve all this myself, but I'm not up to hacking
> into source that communicates so well with the kernel, and it would
> probably mean usurping the current maintainer.

Did I ever tell you about the time a pre-release kerneld sent zen's load
over 900? :)

> I'm tired.  Modprobe has been known to fuck me around for hours when I
> only had a little computer, and formatting manpages took forever.  I
> just watched /Braveheart/.  :)

Cool movie :)
 
> ("FREEDOM!")

Amen.
This is kinda chatty, fell free to put it on chat if it mushrooms out into
a thread.

> [1] : Should this have gone to chat?  Could be, but I think that it's
>       reasonably relevant.

Agreed.  It could end up there though :)
Cheers,
	-Robert

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