In article <linux.kernel.38A0FACE.287AD796@mandrakesoft.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>david parsons wrote:
>> This is not always the case; I put all the ethernet drivers into
>> modules for Mastodon, but I load all of them when the system starts
>> up so I can automatically detect eth0. It's difficult to
>> autodetect ethernet cards when you first have to know all the
>> details about them.
>
>grep for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. There will be less and less need for
>that. A good system (both hardware and OS) should not have to load a
>driver in order to do initial probing, on a modern bus.
When given the choice between (a) tossing all my computers that use
ISA ethernet cards (~10 boxes, and another 10 motherboards that I
use for compatability testing) and (b) de-MacOSing the device
drivers, I'll choose (b), along with (c: bitching about it) any
day of the week.
____
david parsons \bi/ I could get some real modern hardware if I dicarded all
\/ of my ia32 machines and bought Suns, but that would take
a quarter of a million dollars. Somehow I can't see
the point to this.
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