Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:00:05 +1100 (EST) | From | David Monro <> | Subject | Re: Proposal for cleaning up kernel driver parameters |
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[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 > > Rob > (rriggs@tesser.com)
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