difference between load and install not clear

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manage kernel module with puppet

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difference between load and install not clear #49

Closed lelutin closed 3 years ago

lelutin commented 5 years ago

Judging from the documentation, and then the code, it is not very clear what the difference should be between load and install:

load does configure some files (e.g. /etc/modules or the distro variant of it) to make the module reload automatically .... so basically it is doing the "install" part as well?
install class configures things in a different way, by using modprobe.

why are things configured in two different ways? shouldn't kmod::load reuse kmod::install to configure auto-reload?

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