Basically, that's the question. I compiled my kernel with the SCSI AIC7xxx.o driver as a module, and then when it booted up, it paniced. I thought it was some sort of a kernel bug, but it didn't really seem that way when I recompiled the kernel with SCSI support built-in in the kernel itself (monolithically). I'm just curious, does a _panic_ necessarily mean that the kernel needs fixing, or can a panic be a result of something that the user forgot to do which was required in order to avoid that panic? Thanks. Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/