Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Mar 2004 00:19:48 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release |
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0400, rihad wrote: > Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:14:33 -0800 > From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> > > >Users need to learn that the kernel is changing models from one which > >automatically loaded modules when userspace tried to access the device, > >to one where the proper modules are loaded when the hardware is found. > > Does this mean that I will have modules for all my hardware hanging > around even if I'm not, say, using cdrom at the moment?
Yup, why not?
> And does it mean that if I rmmod -a the unused cdrom module and later > try to mount /cdrom, the correct module won't be magically insmod'ed?
If you don't have the /dev entry there, how would anything know to load the module?
> I like the idea of lazy module loading, and it seems that your model > doesn't fit in nicely, I could be wrong.
How about "loading the modules for the hardware present"? What's wrong with that?
thanks,
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