Once upon a time, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The kernel uses it (or did) to identify, in order, your SCSI adaptors' > drivers.
Not the kernel, but modprobe and the init scripts (the kernel doesn't do anything to load modules anymore; it is handled in user-space). > I expect that, without it, the SCSI adaptors will work if their driver > is loaded. How they might be ordered is indeterminate (unless you know > better) and might not be consistent. The important one is the first one; it has to be in the initrd or your system won't boot. The others should be auto-loaded after boot even if they are not listed. > [1] I'd not be surprised if it predates Linux modules, it might still > have provided a means of ordering adaptors. No, this came much later. Without modules, the ordering was determined by a static list in the kernel source and then by link order. Woe to the person that added a second adapter that used a different driver that was earlier in the list; suddenly, all your sda, sdb, etc. are changed (and nothing handled device names changing). -- Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
