very common kernel modules slow down the boot process
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Apr 2 19:25:02 UTC 2008
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:10:34PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said:
> > Hmm, possibly. It looks like if the pnp code finds PNP0700 in the BIOS
> > that a uevent occurs. I found /etc/modprobe.d/floppy-pnp which contains
> > alias pnp:dPNP0700 floppy
> >
> > So yes it looks like disabling that in the BIOS (as long the BIOS stops reporting
> > the PNP object) will make it stop being loaded.
>
> So.... why isn't that alias in the driver?
That would involve someone having to look at floppy.c
Dave
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