On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> I don't think multiple streams is a good idea, but did you all see the patch
> by Christian Koenig to let the bootloader load modules? That seems to solve
> the problem nicely.
That puts an awful lot of smarts into bootloader and creates code duplication
for no good reason.
We _already_ have code for loading modules. And it's going to stay, no
matter what happens on boot. So why the hell duplicate that in $BIGNUM
unrelated pieces of software (LILO, SYSLINUX, MILO, SILO, etc.)? Just
to create extra fun with debugging?
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Dec 23 2001 - 21:00:14 EST