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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2011-04-25 20:41:47 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2011-04-25 20:41:47 +0200
commitdb1413d7380acacc4e50faf801ca0d401da89764 (patch)
tree5525908e3b419149c0458348210fedf37eafc703 /man/modules-load.d.xml
parentmanager: mkdir /run/systemd/system when starting up (diff)
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sysctl.d, binfmt.d, modules-load.d: switch to stacked config dirs in /lib, /etc, /run
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diff --git a/man/modules-load.d.xml b/man/modules-load.d.xml
index 34076916d..b2f15dc7b 100644
--- a/man/modules-load.d.xml
+++ b/man/modules-load.d.xml
@@ -46,14 +46,16 @@
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
+ <para><filename>/usr/lib/modules-load.d/*.conf</filename></para>
<para><filename>/etc/modules-load.d/*.conf</filename></para>
+ <para><filename>/run/modules-load.d/*.conf</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd</command> uses
- <filename>/etc/modules-load.d/</filename> to configure
+ files from the above directories to configure
kernel modules to load during boot in a static list.
Each configuration file is named in the style of
<filename>/etc/modules-load.d/&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>. Note
@@ -72,6 +74,19 @@
newlines. Empty lines and lines whose first
non-whitespace character is # or ; are ignored.</para>
+ <para>Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
+ files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.
+ Files in <filename>/run</filename> overwrite files with
+ the same name in <filename>/etc/</filename> and
+ <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages should install their
+ configuration files in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>, files
+ in <filename>/etc/</filename> are reserved for the local
+ administration, which possibly decides to overwrite the
+ configurations installed from packages. All files are sorted
+ by filename in alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
+ directories they reside, to ensure that a specific
+ configuration file takes precedence over another file with
+ an alphabetically later name.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>