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Network module autoprobing in 1.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avery Pennarun)
Sun Apr 28 23:22:45 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 21:15:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi all. Since I fixed the IRQ-autoprobe-lockup bug in early 1.3 kernels, it
seems like the ARCnet driver is pretty much the only driver to actually take
advantage of this.
Yes, it means network drivers autoprobing as modules works quite well
indeed, and so the extra checks that disable probing for modules are no
longer necessary. Is the kernel just waiting for someone to sweep through
and remove all those checks, or are we too deep in code freeze now to
attempt it?
Avery
