[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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