From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove module reference counting.
Date: 28 Jul 2003 12:38:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1059392321.15458.23.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030727201242.A29448@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
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.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-28 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-24 18:00 [PATCH] Remove module reference counting Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:47 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-27 18:50 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 17:54 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:11 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-07-25 19:32 ` Greg KH
2003-07-25 22:26 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-26 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-26 19:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-27 5:38 ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-27 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 11:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 19:34 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-27 21:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-28 0:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 0:12 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-07-28 11:38 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-29 20:33 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-30 1:55 ` Greg KH
2003-07-30 14:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 11:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 18:11 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-28 19:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-01 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-25 23:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 18:48 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-25 22:43 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-07-25 23:37 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-26 20:18 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-28 11:51 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-28 23:13 ` Rusty Russell
2003-07-29 2:39 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-29 2:10 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
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