Re: SCSI Makefile cleanup

[david parsons]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Jeff Garzik  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>david parsons wrote:
>>     I'd be tempted to just leave the modules they way they work now,
>>     because in most cases module loading lets you shoot yourself in the
>>     foot (except, for no apparent reason, ethernet modules, where a lot
>>     of 'em won't autoprobe because The Computer Knows What's Best.
>>     Sigh.) today, and someone may actually want to take advantage of
>>     one module stepping all over anothers address space.
>
>modern ethernet hardware is PCI, and autoprobes.  though I do agree --
>typically one should specify ethXX assign with "alias ethXX my_driver"
>in conf.modules.

     (digressing wildly)

     That's assuming that your system does (shudder) demand-loading
     of ethernet drivers.

     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.

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     david parsons \bi/ I hate the ``The Computer Doesn't Think Modules Should
                    \/   AutoProbe.  Trust The Computer.  The Computer Is Your
			                                     Friend!'' message.