Re: Re: tao-d] Lots of unnecessary modules loaded

Bogdan Costescu <Bogdan.Costescu-hEciA7+sKtudPOQpRHQ53DeJuz7u0hKX@public.gmane.org> Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:04:24 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tao.general
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0507281059100.13227-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Remco Barendse wrote:

> That's why I wondered how I could remove it. I solved it by a series
> of rmmod commands in rc.local and loading the proper drivers from
> there.

You can avoid loading the modules in the first place by commenting out
the corresponding lines in /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/modprobe.conf -
you don't specify if it's Tao 1 or 4). You might also need to disable
kudzu, which has the ability of putting these lines back in.

> Also I don't like to have unneccesary drivers loaded. Why have some
> flaky SATA drivers in mem when the controller is not even being
> used, same for USB etc.

If you know that you won't use these devices, you can also disable
them in the BIOS, which will prevent them from even being present on
the PCI bus.

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