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Subjectkmod, the kerneld replacement
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.

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Bye,
Kirk Petersen (the other part of "we" is Cyrus Durgin, cider@speakeasy.org)
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~kirk/
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