Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:02:15 +0100 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: The advantage of modules? |
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On 2001.01.06 Drew Bertola wrote: > My best reasons are... > > Development: You don't have to recompile the kernel a billion times > while working on a driver, you just recompile the module. Also, you > can debug, unload, fix, recompile, reload a module to add or fix > pieces of it all (hopefully) without rebooting. > > Practical usage: When I take my laptop on the road I use ppp, so I > load it then. Most of the time I don't need it, so I don't load it. >
Usage: I have seen drivers which require params to work, and you can only give params if the driver is built as a module (ie, modprobe xxxxxx io=0x300 irq=5, etc...) because your hard is not properly autodetected by the module.
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Linux werewolf 2.4.0-ac2 #6 SMP Sat Jan 6 01:38:26 CET 2001 i686
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