> > But what i told you was a practical experience. On my fedora core > 2 box in the office, for several times, I rmmoded parport, parport_pc > and lp modules and checked through lsmod if they did actually got > removed, they sure did. But they used to get loaded automatically when > I used to open /dev/lp0. If you have problems believing this, I can > give you a shell access to my system tomorow morning :) Thanks for the > help. > kernel can load modules as and when needed. For example, if you have compiled the kernel making parport and parport_pc as modules; these modules are not loaded at boot time (until configured to load at boot time by /etc/modules). Whenever any application needs these modules, kernel loads the modules first (using modprobe) and then applications can avail the functionality provided by module. Regards Mohanlal -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
