[asterisk-dev] useless modprobe.conf entries

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Should I take this lack of response as an approval?

Specifically:

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 08:09:57PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Many of the setup bugs I see related to Zaptel seems to be cause by the
> attempt to run ztcfg at module load time automatically.
> 
> Here is where it fails:
> 
> 1. 
> You need to modprobe zaptel manually. This is because on some systems
> (RHEL4?) it takes time for the udev nodes to be generated. And thus 
> the modprobe of of any module the ztcfg will fail because /dev/zap/ctl
> is not there yet.
> 
> 2. 
> On a setup with more than one hardware type, a modprobe of the 
> first card will always fail (because /etc/zaptel.conf cannot yet be
> fully applied).
> 
> 3.
> If zaptel.conf has some errors in it, they appear to be module loading
> errors. 
> 
> (genzaptelconf moves aside the current zaptel.conf for the time of
> hardware probing and replaces it with an empty one. Otherwise no
> automatic module detection would be possible)
> 
> 4. 
> The Astribank drivers are not ready immediely after modprobe time. They
> not only take a small while to initialize, but also optionally will only
> register by a specific instruction from userspace. This allows
> preserving the order of diveces regardless of the arbitrary load order.
> 
> 
> Suggestion: 
> 
> A. Don't install anything to the modprobe configu file.
> Recommend to existing users to remove that file.

Which in plain English mean:

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
--- Makefile    (revision 2162)
+++ Makefile    (working copy)
@@ -410,7 +410,6 @@
        $(INSTALL) -m 644 doc/zttool.8 $(INSTALL_PREFIX)/usr/share/man/man8
        [ `id -u` = 0 ] && /sbin/depmod -a $(KVERS) || :
        [ -f $(CONFIG_FILE) ] || $(INSTALL) -D -m 644 zaptel.conf.sample $(CONFIG_FILE)
-       build_tools/genmodconf $(BUILDVER) "$(ROOT_PREFIX)" "$(filter-out zaptel,$(MODULES)) $(MODULE_ALIASES)"
        @if [ -d /etc/modutils ]; then \
                /sbin/update-modules ; \
        fi

> 
> B. Provide a simple and working zaptel init.d script (for examples, look
> at xpp/utils/zaptel-helper ).

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