[Pkg-acpi-devel] acpid module loading

[Michael Meskes]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:24:16AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>  Julien reported set -x during boot to end with the "modprobe --all"
>  failing; I'm not sure the method of looking at the set -x output during
>  boot was reliable enough and don't understand why the call would fail
>  except for an empty list of modules with some whitespaces, but we
>  confirmed his list was empty.

Derrick's list is not empty:

...
My previous tests confirmed that $MODULES is not empty and contains
well defined space-delimited modules as defined in /etc/default/acpid.
...

>  This is inherently fragile because the same acpid could be used with
>  multiple kernels.   :-/

Right.

>  I'm pretty sure it would either fix 502704, or would make it clear that
>  acpid has a more serious bug if it's started and exits because
>  kernel/module are not yet setup.
> 
>  I agree the slope for the lenny updates has been slippery with the init
>  changes.

How about keeping the logic in the init script and just changing the default
setting? Well, maybe this is your plan anyway. I think we can do that. However,
we still have to figure out what causes 502704.

Michael

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