[jaunty] force load module
Tim Gardner
tim.gardner at canonical.com
Mon Mar 9 03:45:27 UTC 2009
Grzegorz Zajac wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have propose to turn on CONFIG_FORCE_MODULE_LOAD, in jaunty kernel.
> This option was added to kernel from ~2.6.25. Is this option is turned
> off (by default) then all proprietary or not supported drivers must be
> rebuilded when kernel (MODVERSION) is changed. This is big
> inconvenience for end user.
>
Of course you are free to build your own kernels with this option
enabled, but it will certainly never be the default for the Ubuntu
distro kernel. Too much mayhem goes undetected when modules are loaded
with ABI skew.
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
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