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Re: New modules: wd.c and 3c503.c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Mon Jan 30 21:27:33 1995
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Date: 26 Jan 1995 08:17:25 +0100
In linux.dev.net, article <199501191400.AA01831@rasty.anu.edu.au>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul@rasty.anu.edu.au> writes:
> kernel/ksyms.c: added autoirq_setup and autoirq_report to the list.
>
Actually, autoprobing at any time other than at kernel startup is a very
bad idea.
Plus, there now are autoprobe routines in the standard kernel (see
include/linux/interrupt.h); the special stuff in the various net drivers
(and in the serial driver, and ...) really should be removed.
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