Messages in this thread | | | From | Steve Dodd <> | Date | Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:27:27 +0000 | Subject | Re: Tentative patch: modularized disk partition systems in 2.3.99-pre2-5 |
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On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 06:52:14PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> If this change looks good to everyone, then, the next change > after making sure that the modules work would be to add demand loading > of the modules via kmod. I am thinking of naming the demand loaded > module names as "partition-12345678", where "12345678" is the hexadecimal > representation of the first four bytes of the partition. If anyone > has some better suggetions, I am open to hearing them.
I don't think assuming the first four bytes of the partition are going to be "magic" will work. Have you looked at the probe / probeall directives in a recent modutils' modules.conf? They look as if they could be used nicely here.
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