[asterisk-users] ZAPtel channel dance

[Bob Chiodini]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 06:34:03AM -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
>   
>> For Redhat, Fedora, CentOS and other derivatives:
>>
>> You can play tricks in /etc/modprobe.conf using the "install" directive.
>> The man page for modprobe.conf gives an example.
>>     
>
> This is not the proper place: those are not real dependencies. You may
> actually want to load those modules separately one day.
>
>   
Probably not, but from what I've seen on some of the Fedora lists it's 
preferred over the rc.modules hack to force module loading.
>> You could also force their loading and presumably their order in initrd
>> or rc.modules which runs as part of rc.sysinit.  
>>     
>
> Hmmm... sounds nice, however the text I read there is:
>
>   # Load modules (for backward compatibility with VARs)
>   if [ -f /etc/rc.modules ]; then
>       /etc/rc.modules
>   fi
>     
> Is it guranateed to remain there?
>   
rc.modules has been there a long time... Whether it will stay, who 
knows. I have not seen anything about deprecation and it should not get 
touched by any upgrades.
>   
>> rc.modules is the cleanest approach (IMHO), as initrd gets rebuilt by
>> some updates (e.g. kernel).
>>     
>
> And can't easily be re-run.
>
>   
Given Florian's latest post the problem seems to lie in the zaptel 
modules' build and/or install mechanisms.

I have not dug into the Makefiles, but I would think the result of 
genmodconf and zaptel.sysconfig should be consistent.

Bob...