Comment 5 for bug 8832

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In , Marco d'Itri (md) wrote : Re: Bug#269305: no warning in the manpage

On Sep 12, Eduard Bloch <email address hidden> wrote:

> Really, I expected that a tool like update-modules
> still reads /etc/modprobe.d and created /etc/modprobe.conf, and I spent
root@wonderland:~#cat /sbin/update-modules
#!/bin/sh -e
if [ -x /sbin/update-modules.modutils ]; then
  exec /sbin/update-modules.modutils "$*"
fi
exit 0
root@wonderland:~#

update-modules has never created /etc/modprobe.conf, BTW.

> - separate paragraph in the modprobe and modprobe.conf manpages!
Please send a patch.

> - a warning appearing when the init script starts and modprobe.conf
> exist and something in modprobe.d/ exists as well. Eg.
This would be bogus, modprobe.conf may include modprobe.d/.

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ciao, |
Marco | [7949 alkz/RbQujRyU]