On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 09:36 -0800, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote: > > > Firewire and CDROM. They are probably loaded by hotplug. > > Firewire I could understand, but the CD drive is built-in to > the machine, so it's not like it can be hot-(un)plugged.
Don't take the name 'hotplug' too literally. The purpose of hotplug is to automagically load the drivers for your hardware. > > I assume you use your CDROM? Just because they currently don't have a > > reference count doesn't mean they aren't used. > > The machine has a CD drive in it, but, short of installing a > new distro off CD, I will never use the CD drive. (This is a > server machine.) If you don't want hotplug to do its job for some drivers, you can blacklist them. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
