From: Nathan Wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:02:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: probe for hardware in rc.sysinit
X-Git-Url: https://pd.if.org/git/?p=startuptools;a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3fb8f7fdef8cf61b194fd8b44b5c9c39923ffed

probe for hardware in rc.sysinit
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diff --git a/scripts/rc.conf b/scripts/rc.conf
index f8565a3..7dfff27 100644
--- a/scripts/rc.conf
+++ b/scripts/rc.conf
@@ -20,3 +20,8 @@ NETWORKS='localhost default'
 # args to be passed to hwclock at startup
 # if hwclock is in the DAEMONS list
 # HWCLOCK=
+#
+
+# set if you don't want the startup scripts to do a basic probe
+# for hardware kernel modules
+# NOPROBEHW=0
diff --git a/scripts/rc.sysinit b/scripts/rc.sysinit
index 46794a6..8f030c7 100644
--- a/scripts/rc.sysinit
+++ b/scripts/rc.sysinit
@@ -68,10 +68,24 @@ status_begin remounting root filesystem rw
 mount -o remount,rw /
 status_check
 
+# need to run depmod here, just in case
+# it should be done at kernel install time, but this can avoid
+# errors if that goes wrong or there are new or removed modules
 status_begin running depmod
 depmod
 status_check
 
+# load any kernel modules
+# there's probably a better way to do this
+# this could also be done in the initial ram-disk, but
+# this covers the case where there isn't one, but we still want
+# to load more hardware
+if ! is_true "$NOPROBEHW" ; then
+	status_begin "looking for kernel modules to load"
+	lspci -k|grep 'Kernel modules:' | awk '{print $3}'| sort -u | xargs -n1 modprobe
+	status_check
+fi
+
 # set up /dev
 
 if [ -x /sbin/mdev ] && ! is_true "$USE_UDEV" ; then