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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!wlbr!sms From: sms@WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM (Steven M. Schultz) Subject: Re: BSD/386 Commercial Product Message-ID: <1993Jul29.045217.28165@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com> Sender: news@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com (news) Nntp-Posting-Host: wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com Organization: GTE Government Systems References: <1993Jul28.035328.2892@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jul28.025606.6655@spcvxb.spc.edu> <23782b$1vo@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 93 04:52:17 GMT Lines: 14 >All true. But suppose you find a bug in your lp driver. rebuild >a new one, and replace the currently running one. No reboots. Stuff like >that becomes possible with the LKM stuff. I suspect that frankly, the >possibilities are endless, I just need more imagination. Not necessarily. Much of the time you end up rebooting anyway because the load/unload part of the driver is broken or buggy - especially if the driver is currently "running". At least that's how it was on RSX-11, IAS, etc. "unload" - oops, gotta reboot anyhow... Then there was the time the tty driver got unloaded midstream - kinda hard to type a new command to load the new one ;-) Steven Schultz sms@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com