Please don't edit /etc/modprobe.conf. Place your settings into
/etc/modprobe.conf.local instead.


To avoid loading backup files of various tools and editors, modprobe skips
files under /etc/modprobe.d/ that have the following prefixes

"."
"~"

and the following suffixes

".rpmsave"
".rpmorig"
".rpmnew"
".bak"
".YaST2save"
".-"
"~"