Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: SCSI scanning | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:33:01 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Maybe nobody ever insmod'ed a module for a scsi device they don't > > have? > > No, that's not it - the way most distributions do SCSI auto-detection is > to load modules until they succeed.
> At least I _think_ that's what they do. That's what I'd do if I were a > distribution maker.
No, that's not it. They parse /proc/pci or the output of lspci to determine which module to insert.
At least I _think_ that's what they do. Not that I'd do it differently from you if I were a distribution maker.
Roger.
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