Bug 214993

Summary:	ipw2200 /etc/modules.d/ipw2200 deprecated
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Luis Vitorio Cargnini <lvcargnini>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Luis Vitorio Cargnini 2008-03-27 00:53:18 UTC

/etc/modules.d is long deprecated.  please provide an equivalent
/etc/modprobe.d file.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-27 01:11:32 UTC

What did install /etc/modules.d/ipw2200?

Comment 2 Alex Barker 2009-04-23 01:41:25 UTC

This file was probably created manually to set crypto or led options for the driver long ago.  Moving the file to modprobe.d has solved the problem for me.

Comment 3 Luis Vitorio Cargnini 2009-04-23 01:48:52 UTC

someone has more info about this ?
This module was created originally before the kernel has native support for this device driver. Nowadays since this modules is included in the kernel tree, this script possess the functionality to pass some parameters to udev only this.