Re: About Sarge's bootup
Incoming from Ritesh Raj Sarraf:
> Lee Braiden wrote:
>
> > On Monday 16 May 2005 11:02, Carl Fink wrote:
> >> Why is it a "problem" and why do you want to stop it? It isn't hurting
> >> anything.
> >
> > I consider this to be "broken" too. It slows down the boot process, and
> > the messages are misleading, giving the impression that something is going
> > wrong. I haven't got around to removing it from my laptop yet, but on
> > another machine I just installed, I'm just skipping the whole hotplug
> > thing and loading what I need manually.
> >
>
> No, its not broken. There are a certain modules which get loaded by default
> from /etc/modules. Then later when hotplug starts up its hardware probe it
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> tries to load the corresponding module, but finds that its already loaded
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You don't consider that an error? Shouldn't hotplug see if there's
anything to do before bulling ahead and doing it? A simple grep of
/etc/modules would create an exclude list.
> and print that message. If you don't want that message, don't allow the
> kernel to load that particular module.
>
> Its working as designed.
Sure. Is the design correct? :-) Better yet, this should be classed
as an implementation, not design, issue. The design isn't changed by
adding that sanity check to hotplug.
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