[Kernel-handbook-general] [PATCH 3/7] Remove documentation of version-specific /etc/modules files

[Ben Hutchings]

These are no longer supported in wheezy.
---
 chapter-modules.sgml |   15 ++-------------
 debian/changelog     |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/chapter-modules.sgml b/chapter-modules.sgml
index 2678204..d11a0f9 100644
--- a/chapter-modules.sgml
+++ b/chapter-modules.sgml
@@ -27,19 +27,8 @@
      
      If some modules are not loaded automatically by <tt>udev</tt>, but
      you would like them to be loaded during boot, it is possible to force
-     it by listing the names of the modules in one of the
-     files
-     <example>
-/etc/modules-version
-/etc/modules-major
-/etc/modules
-     </example>
-     where <em>version</em> and <em>major</em> are the kernel version
-     as returned by <tt>uname -r</tt> (like <tt>2.6.18-3-686</tt>) and the
-     major part of the kernel version (like <tt>2.6</tt>), respectively. The
-     initialization script will look for these files, matching the
-     version and major part for the running kernel, in the order
-     listed. The first file found will be scanned for the names of
+     it by listing the names of the modules in <tt>/etc/modules</tt>.
+     This will be scanned for the names of
      the modules (one name per line), which will then be loaded using
      <tt>modprobe</tt>. You can also specify the arguments for the modules.
      For example, a typical <tt>/etc/modules</tt> might look like that
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3efc6e5..fbc9aa5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ kernel-handbook (1.0.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Remove documentation of linux-tree package, removed in squeeze
   * Remove documentation of linux-patch-debian package, obsoleted by
     packaging changes and redundant with snapshot.debian.org
+  * Remove documentation of version-specific /etc/modules files, which are
+    no longer supported
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>  Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:26:30 +0000
 
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