redhat problems

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Thu Apr 17 19:07:57 EDT 2003


Lorenzo Prince writes:
> 
> Not sure.  In my Slackware 9 kernel, ide-scsi is compiled into the kernel
> by default according to the .config file in the source tree.

And, according to the Configure.help file in /usr/src/linux/Documentation it can be compiled as a module.

Do you know when it's loaded?

> 
> Lorenzo
> 
> 
> E Pluribus Unix
> 
> Janina Sajka staggered into view and mumbled:
> 
> > Not so fast. Maybe you're correct, and maybe not. Are you familiar with the ide-scsi module? When does that one get loaded--if it's to be loaded?
> >
> > I cite ide-scsi as an example to you. Sayhing "later than the kernel" covers a lot of time, and pretty much the entire stack.
> >
> > Lorenzo Prince writes:
> > > From: Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net>
> > >
> > > Kernel modules are loaded later than the kernel itself.  Unless there is a
> > > buffer in the kernel to keep track of the console text before the module
> > > is loaded, it won't catch all the text from the beginning.
> > >
> > > Lorenzo
> > >
> > > E Pluribus Unix
> > >
> > > Janina Sajka staggered into view and mumbled:
> > >
> > > > Lorenzo Prince writes:
> > > > >
> > > > > ... A modularized speakup [...] would lack some of the things we
> > > > > have come to love about Speakup, such as being able to hear all the boot
> > > > > messages or to scroll back the console through them.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So says you. Do you know this for a fact, or are you supposing this? Care to explain?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > You did state it as fact.
> > > >
> > > > 				Janina
> > > >
> > > >
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> > 				Janina Sajka, Director
> > 				Technology Research and Development
> > 				Governmental Relations Group
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175




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