From: teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (remove) event not supported.
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 02:56:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98618035812423@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98597321622555@msgid-missing>
David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:53:01AM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
>
> > Also a good point, but in general, you don't want to do this. If there
> > is a device still "connected" to the system, you don't want to remove
> > the driver. For development, you might like to simulate a disconnection,
> > but the normal approach is that you want support for every device that is
> > connected to the system. Why remove a module for a device you are using?
>
> Why?
>
> Well the capability was one of the original reasons for creating
> modules in the first place; they were not created for dynamic loading
> of drivers for hot plug devices.
What's cool about modules, is that you can support everything from the
same sets of bootdisk or the same kernel: Compare that to the state of
Slackware in 1995. Being able to add support by modules is important,
unloading them to save a few kilobytes much less so.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-30 17:21 (remove) event not supported David Brownell
2001-03-31 1:00 ` Brad Hards
2001-03-31 2:03 ` Keith Owens
2001-03-31 2:12 ` Brad Hards
2001-03-31 3:48 ` David Hinds
2001-03-31 8:55 ` Brad Hards
2001-03-31 14:56 ` David Brownell
2001-03-31 15:02 ` David Brownell
2001-03-31 15:49 ` Keith Owens
2001-03-31 16:05 ` David Brownell
2001-03-31 16:18 ` Keith Owens
2001-03-31 16:52 ` David Brownell
2001-04-01 3:02 ` David Hinds
2001-04-01 3:03 ` David Hinds
2001-04-01 5:26 ` Douglas Gilbert
2001-04-02 2:56 ` Trond Eivind Glomsrød [this message]
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