[Gllug] Modules vs Static in Kernel

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Fri Jul 18 14:55:04 UTC 2003


On Fri 18 Jul Dylan wrote:
> As a matter or further interest - If a module for a NIC gets unloaded, how 
> does the machine know to reload it when a remote connection is made?

Unloading modules is, in the general case, unsafe and shouldn't really
be done.  Personally I think there should even be support for unloading
at all, although I know that's a controversial pov :)

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