On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > different for embedded systems: modules are usually only used for > driver development, and then you will manually load and unload the > driver anyway. I will even go so far to say that if you need to run > "depmod" for your embedded system you should fix your system design > because you are doing something wrong.
Someone might use loadable modules because he doesn't want to release his driver under the GPL. I wouldn't exactly consider this wrong. Regards, Marius ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marius Groeger SYSGO Real-Time Solutions AG mgroeger at sysgo.de Software Engineering Embedded and Real-Time Software www.sysgo.de Voice: +49-6136-9948-0 Am Pfaffenstein 14 www.osek.de FAX: +49-6136-9948-10 55270 Klein-Winternheim, Germany www.elinos.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
