SOLUTION
Investigations revealed that systemd is unable to load modules with options.
Solution worked for me:
- place module name to
/etc/modules - place module options to
/etc/modprobe.d/options-tmk1553b.conf
$ cat /etc/modules
tmk1553b
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/options-tmk1553b.conf
options tmk1553b d0=1 t0="MRTAI" nrt=8 misc=1
Seems this is common behavior for linux distributions with systemd init system
