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SubjectRe: Spawning modprobe for AX25?!
According to Horst von Brand:
> the problem a "Never" would solve is clearly _very_ minor (just
> "alias xyz off" in /etc/modules.conf works fine for me, no kernel
> changes at all!).

As long as spawning modprobe has non-trivial cost, that's false. (You
should see all the activity created by "modprobe something-aliased-to-off".
Run it under strace sometime and be amazed.)
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Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
"... under cover of afternoon in the biggest car in the county?!" //MST3K

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