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Subject: Re: Project Ideas and a question
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David Naylor <blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> writes:
> 1) Automatic module loading.  Create a discovery system that upon
> identifying hardware that a module supports, loads the module.  This
> would probably be a user-land implementation?

That is a bad idea.  I have a laptop with a broken Ethernet NIC that
will trigger an interrupt storm, rendering the system unusable, if you
attach a driver to it.

DES
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