Re: Tentative patch: modularized disk partition systems in 2.3.99-pre2-5

From: Steve Dodd (steved@loth.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 12:27:27 EST


On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 06:52:14PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:

> If this change looks good to everyone, then, the next change
> after making sure that the modules work would be to add demand loading
> of the modules via kmod. I am thinking of naming the demand loaded
> module names as "partition-12345678", where "12345678" is the hexadecimal
> representation of the first four bytes of the partition. If anyone
> has some better suggetions, I am open to hearing them.

I don't think assuming the first four bytes of the partition are going to be
"magic" will work. Have you looked at the probe / probeall directives in a
recent modutils' modules.conf? They look as if they could be used nicely here.

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