Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: SCSI Makefile cleanup | Date | 8 Feb 2000 23:22:14 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.38A0FACE.287AD796@mandrakesoft.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote: >david parsons wrote: >> This is not always the case; I put all the ethernet drivers into >> modules for Mastodon, but I load all of them when the system starts >> up so I can automatically detect eth0. It's difficult to >> autodetect ethernet cards when you first have to know all the >> details about them. > >grep for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. There will be less and less need for >that. A good system (both hardware and OS) should not have to load a >driver in order to do initial probing, on a modern bus.
When given the choice between (a) tossing all my computers that use ISA ethernet cards (~10 boxes, and another 10 motherboards that I use for compatability testing) and (b) de-MacOSing the device drivers, I'll choose (b), along with (c: bitching about it) any day of the week.
____ david parsons \bi/ I could get some real modern hardware if I dicarded all \/ of my ia32 machines and bought Suns, but that would take a quarter of a million dollars. Somehow I can't see the point to this.
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