Re: [Gumstix-users] modprobe proc-gpio

[Dave H. <dhy...@gm...>]

Hi hypo,

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:24 PM, hypo <hyp...@gm...> wrote:
>
> hi
>
> i have GPIO working through modprobe proc-gpio. How do I ensure that this is
> compiled into the kernel and not as a module? Alternatively, i think i can
> have it be loaded in rCS or under /etc/init.d. Is this recommended? i feel
> that this may slow down the bootup sequence, also am not sure if this has
> maintainability issues.

Probably the simplest thing is to add a line to the /etc/modules file
(containing the name of the module to load). This file contains a list
of modules which are loaded at boot time by one of the startup
scripts.

Basically, rc.modules (or perhaps modutils.sh) calls modprobe on each
line in the file that isn't a comment line or blank line.

You could compile it into the kernel, but there's alot more steps to
figure out how to change the kernel configuration and rebuild it.

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Dave Hylands
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