[Pkg-acpi-devel] acpid module loading

[Loïc Minier]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008, Michael Meskes wrote:
> 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.

 Sorry, that his list was *not* empty.

> >  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.

 Right; I guess we can move the defaults to MODULES="" for lenny and let
 people keep their default file or not, and drop this support entirely
 post lenny.

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Loïc Minier