Re: Kernel weirdness
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 18:14:12 -0400
"Rob" <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org> wrote:
At a quick guess - those modules are all loaded in the initial ram disk
(the "initrd"), so that machines can access a CDROM drive or a hard
drive on an off-board IDE or SCSI controller.
Ask google for details, but this is one of the reasons why I roll my own
kernels.
> I've installed the kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 package. Until now, I've
> been running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. Though I didn't change what
> modules I load, with this new kernel package have come a whole bunch
> of new modules that are being loaded. I've run modconfig and removed
> them, but they continue to to load at boot. Short of booting back into
> the bf2.4 kernel, I don't know what to do about it. Any help would be
> appreciated. Below are is the output of lsmod from the bf2.4 and
> 2.4.22 kernels respectively:
>
> bf2.4:
> Module Size Used by Not tainted
> axnet_cs 11396 1
> ds 6624 2 [axnet_cs]
> i82365 22384 2
> pcmcia_core 41376 0 [axnet_cs ds i82365]
> parport_pc 25672 1 (autoclean)
> lp 6880 0 (autoclean)
> parport 21696 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
> nls_cp437 4384 2 (autoclean)
> cs4232 3552 0 (unused)
> ad1848 20640 0 [cs4232]
> uart401 5984 0 [cs4232]
> sound 52844 0 [cs4232 ad1848 uart401]
> soundcore 3204 4 [sound]
> isa-pnp 27400 0 [cs4232 ad1848]
> keybdev 1664 0 (unused)
> input 3040 0 [keybdev]
> usb-uhci 20676 0 (unused)
> usbcore 48000 0 [usb-uhci]
>
> 2.4.22:
> Module Size Used by Not tainted
> axnet_cs 12904 1
> ds 7060 2 [axnet_cs]
> yenta_socket 10848 2
> pcmcia_core 47168 0 [axnet_cs ds yenta_socket]
> parport_pc 23880 1 (autoclean)
> lp 7168 0 (autoclean)
> parport 26728 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
> nls_cp437 4348 2 (autoclean)
> cs4232 4132 0 (unused)
> ad1848 24524 0 [cs4232]
> uart401 6852 0 [cs4232]
> sound 59528 0 [cs4232 ad1848 uart401]
> soundcore 3940 4 [sound]
> isa-pnp 32912 0 [cs4232 ad1848]
> keybdev 2116 0 (unused)
> input 3648 0 [keybdev]
> usb-uhci 23600 0 (unused)
> usbcore 63372 0 [usb-uhci]
> rtc 6792 0 (autoclean)
> reiserfs 191056 1 (autoclean)
> isofs 26228 0 (autoclean)
> vfat 10860 1 (autoclean)
> fat 32152 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
> ext2 36352 0 (autoclean)
> ext3 65316 2 (autoclean)
> jbd 42760 2 (autoclean) [ext3]
> ide-detect 10832 0 (autoclean)
> cmd64x 8036 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> cmd640 2916 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> cy82c693 2156 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> slc90e66 4880 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> sis5513 11824 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> via82cxxx 11144 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> aec62xx 6020 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> amd74xx 10148 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> serverworks 8412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> hpt34x 2504 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> hpt366 15556 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> ide-disk 16832 5 (autoclean) [hpt366]
> piix 8392 1 (autoclean)
> opti621 2668 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> generic 1928 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> sc1200 5232 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> alim15x3 7796 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> pdc202xx_old 11492 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> pdc202xx_new 8004 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> ns87415 2056 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> rz1000 1064 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> cs5530 3728 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> adma100 840 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> siimage 9124 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> triflex 2508 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> trm290 2506 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> ide-core 99064 5 (autoclean) [ide-detect cmd64x
> cmd640 cy82c693 slc90e66 sis5513 via82cxxx aec62xx amd74xx serverworks
> hpt34x hpt366 ide-disk piix opti621 generic sc1200 alim15x3
> pdc202xx_old pdc202xx_new ns87415 rz1000 cs5530 adma100 siimage
> triflex trm290] unix 15500 5 (autoclean)
>
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> ...Rob
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