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authorLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>2012-03-30 13:37:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-30 16:03:15 -0700
commit970e2486492aa1eb47a436a5a4c81e92558986a9 (patch)
tree5c321b58b536695b513f21b9b8d5431f0db88ac5 /Documentation/video4linux
parent096015236df46c64be8b86e41fd4e28522e5f7e5 (diff)
Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the context. There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4 kernels that are being removed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/video4linux')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/CQcam.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/Zoran2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Modules.conf2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt2
4 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CQcam.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/CQcam.txt
index 8977e7ce4dab..6e680fec1e9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/CQcam.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CQcam.txt
@@ -61,29 +61,19 @@ But that is my personal preference.
2.2 Configuration
The configuration requires module configuration and device
-configuration. I like kmod or kerneld process with the
-/etc/modprobe.conf file so the modules can automatically load/unload as
-they are used. The video devices could already exist, be generated
-using MAKEDEV, or need to be created. The following sections detail
-these procedures.
+configuration. The following sections detail these procedures.
2.1 Module Configuration
Using modules requires a bit of work to install and pass the
-parameters. Understand that entries in /etc/modprobe.conf of:
+parameters. Understand that entries in /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf of:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 c-qcam
-will cause the kmod/modprobe to do certain things. If you are
-using kmod, then a request for a 'char-major-81-0' will cause
-the 'c-qcam' module to load. If you have other video sources with
-modules, you might want to assign the different minor numbers to
-different modules.
-
2.2 Device Configuration
At this point, we need to ensure that the device files exist.
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
index 9ed629d4874b..b5a911fd0602 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ Load zr36067.o. If it can't autodetect your card, use the card=X insmod
option with X being the card number as given in the previous section.
To have more than one card, use card=X1[,X2[,X3,[X4[..]]]]
-To automate this, add the following to your /etc/modprobe.conf:
+To automate this, add the following to your /etc/modprobe.d/zoran.conf:
options zr36067 card=X1[,X2[,X3[,X4[..]]]]
alias char-major-81-0 zr36067
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Modules.conf b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Modules.conf
index 753f15956eb8..8f258faf18f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Modules.conf
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Modules.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# For modern kernels (2.6 or above), this belongs in /etc/modprobe.conf
+# For modern kernels (2.6 or above), this belongs in /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
# For for 2.4 kernels or earlier, this belongs in /etc/modules.conf.
# i2c
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt
index 34e2842c70ae..a051152ea99c 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Module use:
-----------
In order to automatically load the meye module on use, you can put those lines
-in your /etc/modprobe.conf file:
+in your /etc/modprobe.d/meye.conf file:
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 meye