Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:35:56 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: David Naylor <blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project Ideas and a question Message-ID: <864pgr73eb.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200710130959.45183.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> (David Naylor's message of "Sat\, 13 Oct 2007 09\:59\:45 %2B0200") References: <200710130959.45183.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za>
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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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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