kmod: automatically load a few kernel modules we need for normal operation before udev is active

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/src/automount.c b/src/automount.c
index 730b1572c2..32680461c2 100644
--- a/src/automount.c
+++ b/src/automount.c
@@ -276,18 +276,8 @@ static int open_dev_autofs(Manager *m) {
                 return m->dev_autofs_fd;
 
         if ((m->dev_autofs_fd = open("/dev/autofs", O_CLOEXEC|O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
-
-                if (errno == ENOENT || errno == ENODEV) {
-                        log_error("Your kernel apparently lacks built-in autofs4 support. Please fix that. "
-                                  "We'll now try to work around this by calling 'modprobe autofs4'...");
-                        system("/sbin/modprobe -q -- autofs4");
-                        m->dev_autofs_fd = open("/dev/autofs", O_CLOEXEC|O_RDONLY);
-                }
-
-                if (m->dev_autofs_fd < 0) {
-                        log_error("Failed to open /dev/autofs: %s", strerror(errno));
-                        return -errno;
-                }
+                log_error("Failed to open /dev/autofs: %s", strerror(errno));
+                return -errno;
         }
 
         init_autofs_dev_ioctl(&param);