On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:40:50PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Herbert Xu writes: > >Why should lp load if your haven't loaded the low level modules? > > Because you might want to load them later. It's not supposed to be > sensitive to the order in which these things happen.
Hmm, I don't see what's so useful about that. > Compare the other kernel subsystems. You can load sd_mod.o without having > any host adapter drivers present; you can load nfs.o without having any > network card drivers present, and so on. NFS is completely different, it's not a hardware device. IMHO you should compare it with other parport devices, e.g., pd/pf/etc. They all fail to load unless you actually have the devices present. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
