>
> As far as I know some drivers do not work as modules with SMP option enabled.
> I am working on kernel 2.0.36 and I do not know if this belongs to kernel
> 2.2.5, too - maybe I am completely wrong.
> Seems (and I am telling you) that you have to hardwire the drivers. By the
> way, where is the problem to hardwire them?
>
> Dietmar
Well, following the comments from Don Holmgren (thanks again!) I got all
the modules I tried to work under SMP (I tried pretty much all of them
for the purpose of generating a distribution). There are several reasons
why you don't want to hardwire drivers, here are a few (sorry for getting
off on a tangent, this doesn't have much to do with SMP anymore):
1. it makes your kernel portable. If you have different hardware, all
you need to do is to load a different module, no need to recompile
your kernel. If you change the configuration of things like the
soundboard, you can enter the new parameters when you load the module.
2. it may mean the difference between a kernel that is too large to
boot or one that works.
3. it conserves memory. Unneeded modules can automatically be unloaded
at runtime by the kernel after about a minute of not being in use.
For more details, read /<LinuxKernelSource>/Documentation/modules.txt
Regards, -Borries
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