  Let $k$ be a global function field with field of constants $\Fr$ and let
$\infty$ be a fixed place of $k$. In his habilitation thesis \cite{boc2},
Gebhard B\"ockle attaches abelian Galois representations to characteristic $p$
valued cusp eigenforms and double cusp eigenforms \cite{go1} such that Hecke
eigenvalues correspond to the image of Frobenius elements. In the case where
$k=\Fr(T)$ and $\infty$ corresponds to the pole of $T$, it then becomes
reasonable to ask whether rank 1 Drinfeld modules over $k$ are themselves
``modular'' in that their Galois representations arise from a cusp or double
cusp form. This paper gives an introduction to \cite{boc2} with an emphasis on
modularity and closes with some specific questions raised by B\"ockle's work.
