Re: kerneld
I don't know that any low level drivers need to explicitly specified
in /etc/modules. My ethernet card, scsi hostadapter, filesystems,
etc. all load and unload on demand, as long as the right aliases
are set in /etc/conf.modules.
--Brian Borg
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 May 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote:
>
> >
> > To use all of your modules, do you need only to put "auto" in your
> > /etc/modules file, or do you need to put all of the modules that you
> > want loaded on demand as well?
> >
> Not at all! If the comment is removed from auto then modules will be
> loaded when needed. Only low level drivers, like for scsi cards, need be
> specified here. If your machine had an Adaptec 1542 scsi interface card
> installed, the line "aha1542" in the modules file would be enough to make
> it work.
> Another point to note: Modules specified explicitly (in addition to auto)
> will never be unloaded by kerneld even if they are never used. I used this
> feature to keep the serial module in memory so that its particular
> interupt settings would not be lost by kerneld unloading it.
>
> Luck,
>
> Dwarf
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