Re: Christmas list for the kernel

Greg KH
2005-11-22T21:00:33Z

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:31:16PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> 4) Merge klibc and fix up the driver system so that everything is
> hotplugable. This means no more need to configure drivers in the
> kernel, the right drivers will just load automatically.

What driver subsystem is not hotplugable and does not have automatically
loaded modules today?

There are a few issues around PnP devices that I know of, and PCMCIA
needs some seriously love, but other than that I think we are well off.
Or am I missing something big here?

thanks,

greg k-h