[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#627949: Bug#627949: Bug#627949: /etc/modules parsing still broken

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi brian,

"brian m. carlson" <sandals at crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
>> Could you please help us by sending a patch for module-init-tools that
>> does what Michael Biebl outlined in #27?
>
> No, because I believe the right solution is to make systemd respect the
> way the file works already, and not to break the semantics of the
> current file in favor of another solution.  Making systemd split on
> whitespace isn't very hard, and the fact is there's no good reason to
> change the existing behavior.
>
> In general, if there are things that switching to systemd breaks that
> have worked for a long time (i.e. regressions), we need to fix systemd,
> and not implement hacks that work around systemd's shortcomings.
In this specific case, upstream has a good argument for not supporting
options in /etc/modules, as has been explained in this thread.

It’s too bad you don’t want to actually help. I’ll try to work on a
patch, but it’s not very high priority for me.

-- 
Best regards,
Michael