Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0400, rihad wrote:
> Date: 	Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:14:33 -0800
> From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> >Users need to learn that the kernel is changing models from one which
> >automatically loaded modules when userspace tried to access the device,
> >to one where the proper modules are loaded when the hardware is found.
> 
> Does this mean that I will have modules for all my hardware hanging 
> around even if I'm not, say, using cdrom at the moment?

Yup, why not?

> And does it mean that if I rmmod -a the unused cdrom module and later
> try to mount /cdrom, the correct module won't be magically insmod'ed?

If you don't have the /dev entry there, how would anything know to load
the module?

> I like the idea of lazy module loading, and it seems that your model 
> doesn't fit in nicely, I could be wrong.

How about "loading the modules for the hardware present"?  What's wrong
with that?

thanks,

greg k-h
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