[systemd-devel] Improving module loading

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Tue Dec 16 07:59:20 PST 2014


On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog
<umut at tezduyar.com> wrote:
> The other thought is, what is the preferred way of loading modules
> when they are needed.

Rely on kernel autoloading. Not all modules support that yet, but most
do. What do you have in mind?

> Do they have to be loaded on ExecStartPre= or as
> a separate service which has ExecStart that uses kmod to load them?
> Wouldn't it be useful to have something like ExecStartModule=?

I'd much rather we improve the autoloading support...

Cheers,

Tom


More information about the systemd-devel mailing list