Messages in this thread | | | From | "Lauri Tischler" <> | Date | Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:55:59 GMT +2 | Subject | Re: If we're "voting" on kerneld. . . |
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Anno Domini 29 Apr 96 at 14:30, brianc@saintjoe.edu wrote:
> Here's another that we keep it in. What does it hurt? > I like it primarily because it's sorta "gee-whizzish" and I can > brag to my friends about the advanced features of Linux vis a vis > the other kids in town.
I don't see much macho 'bragging' about broken feature..
kerneld may, note MAY, be usefull one day. It's present incarnation brings only grief and unnecessary whine to this list.
I'm also well aware that some of our unfortunate brethen HAS to work with underpowered hardware, for them kerneld appears to be vital. Life is not fair..
I still don't see any use for kerneld on 'normal' systems. The only use I would have for it, would be to handle lp (printer) and ppa (Zip- drive) intelligently. I just wonder what would happed if I tried to mount my Zip-drive while printing a large job. How would kerneld know that it should NOT 'rmmod' the lp-driver while the printing is going on. Wise versa, if I were dumping a backup to the Zip-drive and then started printjob from another console, what would happen ?
The abowe mentioned problem I'm gonna solve by getting second parallelport, no fuss. Cheers..
-- Thought for the day: A penny saved is ridiculous.
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