Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:09:53 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page] |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > >Just load the driver at bootup and forget about it. Problem solved. > > > > I daily curse the name of whoever added autoload and autounload. > > Autoload maybe useful, autounload is just asking for problems. > > Deal with it. Hardware is also now auto load and auto unloading too. For 2.5 > hopefully a lot of this can be tidied up and done better - persistent storage > in the modules that is written to disk and put back by insmod/rmmod (in > userspace) will help a lot.
Not quite: plugging physically hardware in and out is compleatly different then just loading a driver and unconditionally unloading it even when the hardware is still there! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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