Telling Linux kernel to apply appletouch driver instead of usbmouse driver to touchpad

I'm currently running Linux on an old macbook. It's too old for the modern apple touchpad driver so I have to use the old appletouch driver. Whenever I boot the computer the kernel uses the usbmouse driver for the touchpad, so I have to invoke

rmmod usbmousermmod appletouchmodprobe appletouchmodprobe usbmouse

in order to get the touchpad working and allow external usb mice. I currently just have a script I run manually on startup to fix the mouse for me, but I was wondering if there was some configuration I could modify to have this happen automatically for me?