Linux modules question:

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:56:08AM EST, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> All,
> 
> Can someone tell me what tells Linux which modules to load at boot time?
> I am asking because I see some modules that are loaded that I don't need
> loading, because I don't use the related application/protocol.
> For example:
> I don't use Bluetooth, so I don't need the Bluetooth module loaded.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

Most distributions these days either use udev or hotplug. If the kernel 
is 2.6.15 or newer, there is a good chance that it is exclusively udev.

As for preventing modules from loading, it depends on how your system 
has module-init-tools set up. On debian/ubuntu, there is a series of 
blacklist files in /etc/modprobe.d that you wmight want to look at. Just 
add the modules to any of those files, and they won't be loaded when the 
system boots.

If you are using hotplug, I think /etc/hotplug.d/blacklist is the file 
you want.

hth
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