Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 1998 22:13:05 -0800 | From | Kirk Petersen <> | Subject | kmod, the kerneld replacement |
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Hi, Here is a patch that replaces kerneld with a simple mechanism that doesn't require an external binary or sysv ipc. Instead of using messages, it directly execve()s modprobe whenever part of the kernel calls request_module(). It has been tested on some single CPU Pentiums with SMP kernels and appears stable. If you can spare the time to apply it and test it, especially on real SMP or non-Intel machines, we would really appreciate it. Please send us any comments you have. Note: The patch is against 2.1.79. This *erases* all kerneld stuff (except for some comments and documentation). You might want to disable kerneld (the daemon) before attempting to boot a kernel with this patch, just in case.
-- Bye, Kirk Petersen (the other part of "we" is Cyrus Durgin, cider@speakeasy.org) http://www.muppetlabs.com/~kirk/ [unhandled content-type:application/x-gunzip] | |