RE: kerneld for FreeBSD

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO wrote:

> > No.  Modules shouldn't be unloaded automatically.

                              ^^
> but why? :-) what is wrong with that? it would be so nice to have small 
> GENERIC kernel and bunch of modules. kernel will start, identify all
> hardware (pci/pnp) and than load appropriate modules. the only problem
> here is old hardware :(

You weren't listening..no-one debates the utility of auto-loading modules,
and that is the direction FreeBSD is already heading. The debate is over
the utility of automatically UNLOADING modules when they're "no longer in
use".

Kris

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