david parsons wrote:
> This is not always the case; I put all the ethernet drivers into
> modules for Mastodon, but I load all of them when the system starts
> up so I can automatically detect eth0. It's difficult to
> autodetect ethernet cards when you first have to know all the
> details about them.
grep for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. There will be less and less need for
that. A good system (both hardware and OS) should not have to load a
driver in order to do initial probing, on a modern bus.
Jeff
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