* IDE Disk Driver
@ 2003-06-25 20:45 Sumit Narayan
2003-06-25 22:51 ` Alan Cox
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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
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* 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
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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
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* Re: IDE Disk Driver
2003-06-25 22:51 ` Alan Cox
@ 2003-06-26 15:23 ` walt
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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? ;-)
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