[systemd-devel] systemd unit review requested

Michael Biebl mbiebl at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 04:28:15 PST 2013


2013/12/5 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>:
>
> On 12/05/2013 06:50 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>>
>> ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/modprobe wacom_w8001
>
>
> Add a configuration file called wacom-w8001.conf to /etc/modules-load.d
> directory with the following content to load the module
> ( /etc/modules-load.d/wacom-w8001.conf )
> # Load wacom_w8001 at boot
> wacom_w8001

Well, this loads the kernel module unconditionally, though. Even for
users which don't have that hardware. So this approach isn't that
great.

It also depends on the wacom_w8001 and how it reacts when it's loaded
and no hardware is present.

Peter, couldn't this module be autoloaded?

Michael








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