What ever the merits of the grand debate about Micro vs Monolithic Kernels are....
...here is a curious data point. My CD writer ceased to write. Cease to notice blank disks. T'was nailed to the perch. I was about to invoke guarantees and the like when I thought... perhaps I should reboot (you know The Computer Industry joke, push it back up... tell me if you haven't heard it, we computer types really deserve that joke.) When I thought, I don't want to reboot, I have too much running... Hm, perhaps... what module controls the device... # lsmod . . . cdrom 37536 1 sr_mod . . # Aha! There it is! So let's try... # rmmod sr_mod And bang udev decides it needs sr_mod to handle this device and pulls it in again... it sees the blank disk, I burn the disk and off we go without a reboot. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand
