some changes for (slightly) faster boot

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Tue Jan 4 21:42:47 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 22:45 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Hence, where we're probably going to end up is that kudzu will, at
> most, handle things like modprobe.conf aliases for networking;

And when user space can finally control driver binding / per-device
driver options we
can go ahead and kill that cruft which is modprobe.conf and aliases. The
way it works
today, with the kernel automatically binding drivers, is in my view
rather flawed.

It even looks like people are working on this

 http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/11/9/330

David





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