From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 7 10:55:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19837 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19832 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA00282; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:55:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Zoltan Sebestyen cc: FreeBSD questions mailinglist Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Zoltan Sebestyen wrote: > I'd like to know how can I use the atapi and wcd loadable kernel modules > instead of the building them statically in the kernel, I mean what should > I change in the kernel config file(I suppose that I should) and do these > modules require any special treatment. The LKM doesn't probe the drives as effectively as they do in the kernel, and even that probe isn't very good. The driver doesn't use that much space anyway. If you're concerned about space rebuild your kernel and eliminate all the devices you don't use. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo