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Re: Module qeustion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Godfrey Nix)
Tue Oct 27 11:10:31 1998

From: "Godfrey Nix" <g.nix@emnet.co.uk>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:08:09 +0000
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If your primary disk is the IDE drive, then I would have thought 
that you should keep the IDE driver in the kernel and not in a
loadable module - otherwise how would you be able to boot your
system?


> From:          David_M_Morgan@rsh.net
> To:            redhat-list@redhat.com
> Date:          Tue, 27 Oct 1998 06:11:13 -0600
> Subject:       Module qeustion
> Reply-to:      redhat-list@redhat.com

> This is just a thought that I had and thought that I'd ask, is possible to
> make your IDE controller a module. If so (I'm thinking of trying this just
> for the hell of it) would I have to put in a line something like this in
> rc.sysinit toward the beginning... insmod name_of_module.o in order for it
> to work? Just wondering.
> 
> 
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