Re: tao-d] Lots of unnecessary modules loaded

Remco Barendse <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:38:52 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tao.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Huh? I didn't re-post my message did I? It's not in my sent items list?

Anyways, the question was not about diskspace but more about various 
drivers. I have an ISDN PRI card for which I need to load drivers for the 
Asterisk PBX. It seems however that some drivers are already in the kernel 
but they aren't useful for me.

That's why I wondered how I could remove it. I solved it by a series of 
rmmod commands in rc.local and loading the proper drivers from there.

Also I don't like to have unneccesary drivers loaded. Why have some flaky 
SATA drivers in mem when the controller is not even being used, same for 
USB etc.

Cheers!
Remco

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, R P Herrold wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Remco Barendse wrote:
>
>> Hi list!
>> 
>> After the new install I have lots and lots of modules loaded I will never 
>> use or do not see the need for.
>> 
>> When I look in /etc/modprobe.conf however these modules are not listed
>> 
>> How can I get rid of them? I tried finding it in the RHEL4 docs but didn't 
>> get very far.
>
> It seems you posted the same question two momths ago here. The answer has not 
> changed.  Check the archive for the full response.
>
> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:43:49 -0400 (EDT)
> From: R P Herrold <herrold-lD49m8UYmPxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> To: Remco Barendse <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tao-discuss <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: tao-d]  Lots of unnecessary modules loaded
>
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Remco Barendse wrote:
>
>> After the new install I have lots and lots of modules loaded I will never 
>> use or do not see the need for.
>> 
>> When I look in /etc/modprobe.conf however these modules are
>> not listed
>> 
>> How can I get rid of them? I tried finding it in the RHEL4 docs but didn't 
>> get very far.
>
> There is little rationale for documenting or providing tools to do so in a 
> Enterprise targetted distribution.  To do so drives up support costs, with no 
> tangible benefit in this era of inexpensive hard drives.  If it truly ...
>