* IDE Disk Driver @ 2003-06-25 20:45 Sumit Narayan 2003-06-25 22:51 ` Alan Cox 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Sumit Narayan @ 2003-06-25 20:45 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel Hi, Could I know if I could load a driver for a disk drive without rebooting the system? I have written a ide-disk driver, but I dont wish to restart the system. Can I simply load that module in some way, and then later return to the actual driver? Thanks in advance, Sumit ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: IDE Disk Driver 2003-06-25 20:45 IDE Disk Driver Sumit Narayan @ 2003-06-25 22:51 ` Alan Cox 2003-06-26 15:23 ` walt 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Alan Cox @ 2003-06-25 22:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: sumit_uconn; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List On Mer, 2003-06-25 at 21:45, Sumit Narayan wrote: > Hi, > > Could I know if I could load a driver for a disk drive without rebooting the system? I have written a ide-disk driver, but I dont wish to restart the system. Can I simply load that module in some way, and then later return to the actual driver? Not yet - I'm working in that direction ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: IDE Disk Driver 2003-06-25 22:51 ` Alan Cox @ 2003-06-26 15:23 ` walt 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: walt @ 2003-06-26 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2003-06-25 at 21:45, Sumit Narayan wrote: > >>Hi, >>Could I know if I could load a driver for a disk drive without rebooting the system? > Not yet - I'm working in that direction Merging some changesets from RMS's kernel? ;-) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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