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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Conveying important upgrade messages to user community
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:36:47
Message-Id: 20041117173531.GA28285@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Conveying important upgrade messages to user community by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:41:07AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 >
3 > Adding the module to modules.autoload does not mean it will always load.
4 > It means it will always *try* to load. There is an important
5 > distinction between the two.
6
7 _very_ few modules in 2.6 refuse to load anymore. Almost all of them
8 will now load, if you have the hardware for them or not.
9
10 Yes, there are still exceptions, but those are exceptions, not the rule,
11 and are slowly being fixed to not do this.
12
13 thanks,
14
15 greg k-h
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