I too have often compiled and installed new modules into a running kernel.. Very cool.
On Wed, February 13, 2008 9:47 am, Neil Stockbridge wrote: > > in the same vein, we plugged a USB hard disc caddy into a laptop here > not five minutes ago and it greeted us with: > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs' > > so we: > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.23.14-callisto/ > make menuconfig > nice -19 make > sudo make modules_install > mount /media/usbdisk/ > > ..and the error no longer appears. how cool to be able to add NTFS > support to your kernel without rebooting? > > - neil > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:14:57AM +1300, John Carter wrote: >> 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 >> > > -- Nick Rout
