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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
    On 28 Jul 2003 12:38:41 +0100
    Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

    > On Llu, 2003-07-28 at 01:12, Bill Nottingham wrote:
    > > It loads/unloads things like scsi modules and firewire controller
    > > modules, but only for hardware actually present in the system (i.e.,
    > > you'd probably be loading it again anyway, if you haven't already
    > > loaded it.)
    >
    > It loads things like floppy anyway, and it loads lots of things like the
    > firewire stuff that nobody ever uses because it has to see if anything
    > is plugged into them.

    And it has to leave them in memory anyway, in case someone plugs stuff in
    later. Oh well.

    > I guess kudzu could simply do lots of I/O ops directly on the floppy
    > hardware to detect it without loading drivers but thats pretty fugly.

    Agreed that'd be kinda silly. But I was "educated" earlier that driver
    loading shouldn't fail just because hardware is missing, due to hotplug.

    Is this wrong?
    Rusty.
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    many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy
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