Re: 2.6.7 questions

From: John L Fjellstad (john-debian_at_fjellstad.org)
Date: 07/15/04

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:17:21 +0200

    Bradley Alexander <storm@tux.org> writes:

    > It appears that part of the problem is that for some reason (which hopefully
    > someone can straighten out for me, modules don't seem to be autoloading. Did
    > I forget to install something? Things work well under 2.4, I just tried to
    > bring up an encrypted loopback filesystem and had to manually modprobe loop
    > and cryptoloop.
    >> and similar stuff in /var/log/messages and /var/log/kern.log.

    The kernel developers have moved away from 'load module at use',
    like we had in the 2.4 series. They're moving to a 'load module at
    hardware detection' instead. Meaning, you use hotplug which loads your
    usb modules when you plug in a usb device for instance.

    That also means that hardware that doesn't get plugged in (like serial,
    parallell ports, cd/dvd devices, floppy etc), needs to have their
    modules loaded at all time.

    Unless you still want to use devfs. 

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John L. Fjellstad
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