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From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: removing hardcoded "modprobe blktap" in
	xencommons
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:16:01 +0100
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George Dunlap writes ("Re: RFC: removing hardcoded "modprobe blktap" in xencommons"):
> If we did something like this, we'd still have to have the modprobes in 
> xencommons for older kernels; we'd just have to have a way to disable it 
> for newer kernels.

Many of the modules we'd be asking for (eg blktap*) don't exist on
newer kernels at all, so the modprobe is harmless.

For the others we can check uname.

Ian.