Le Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:51:50 +0100, Truls Becken <truls.becken@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
Niels Reedijk wrote:You can imagine that it is bad when the kernel detects a new driver for your hard disk and as such unloads the old one. That means havoc!If unloading certain kinds of drivers is going to break the system, shouldn't the kernel know about that and refrain from the temptation to reload such drivers? -Truls
It would then lose the magin of updating a driver without having to reboot. Updating a single one is usually ok, but not all of them. As updating a driver is likely to happen more often than upgrading, I think the current way is safer.
-- Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy http://pulkomandy.ath.cx
