Subject: Re: A potential step towards modularisation
To: Quentin Garnier <netbsd@quatriemek.com>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/09/2004 13:47:20
Hello,

>> The only solution is to load all the hardware drivers for the hardware
>> you have. It wastes some memory, if you don't use this hardware, but
>> this shouldn't do much harm. How this should be done is another
>> question.
> 
> Well, we'll see about this.  I don't really believe in autoconfiguration
> unless the kernel gets feeded with the probing functions.

I do not understand what you mean here. Specifically, what means "unless the
kernel gets feeded with the probing functions".

Bye	Pavel