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SubjectRe: Proposal for cleaning up kernel driver parameters

[lots of stuff deleted about making module parameters persistant]

> Nice idea. Especially if rdev(8) (or some new utility) could
> pull the data out of /proc and configure the kernel image file
> so that autoprobing would only be needed the first time the
> kernel is booted.

Slowaris basically does this - when you change the hardware you do a boot -r to
reconfigure all the devices and it goes through the autoprobe phase. Normally
it doesn't bother. Seems to work OK (except when trying to probe ne2000 boards
it can crash horribly - but we already know and cope with that problem). So
all we need is a flag like do_autoprobe on the command line to tell it to do
it.

David
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> Rob
> (rriggs@tesser.com)


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