Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:33:10 +1000 | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting. |
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On 28 Jul 2003 12:38:41 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-07-28 at 01:12, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > It loads/unloads things like scsi modules and firewire controller > > modules, but only for hardware actually present in the system (i.e., > > you'd probably be loading it again anyway, if you haven't already > > loaded it.) > > It loads things like floppy anyway, and it loads lots of things like the > firewire stuff that nobody ever uses because it has to see if anything > is plugged into them.
And it has to leave them in memory anyway, in case someone plugs stuff in later. Oh well.
> I guess kudzu could simply do lots of I/O ops directly on the floppy > hardware to detect it without loading drivers but thats pretty fugly.
Agreed that'd be kinda silly. But I was "educated" earlier that driver loading shouldn't fail just because hardware is missing, due to hotplug.
Is this wrong? Rusty. -- there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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