Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:49:29 -0500 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Re: The advantage of modules? |
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On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:02:15AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > 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.
For many devices you can specify the parameters at boot time if you use something like lilo to boot.
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