Re: How to get rid of sungem at boot time?
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:57:00AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 00:12 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> > So anyone knows which app/config at boot time might be responsible for
> > loading the sungem stuff?
> > I already completely removed discover to fix this:
>
> sungem is your built-in ethernet. It show up on the PCI bus, thus
> hotplug will automatically load the driver. Besides, it's a good thing
> anyway as the sungem driver will deal with power management of the chip
> even when you are not using it, for example, for sleep mode. It's just a
> wrong way of thinking that you should remove drivers for HW you do not
> use in fact :)
>
> The problem here is assuming any kind of stability of the ethX numbers.
> This can't work. Ever. You need some other ways of identifying your
> interfaces. I don't know if debian network configure scripts provide any
> such thing though.
You can list the modules in /etc/modules, and they will be loaded in order
before any kind of auto-probing.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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