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Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:26:38 -0500
From: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
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To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-mm2
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Dave Jones wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:50:48PM -0500, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > Dave Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > > Should I prevent my initscript from loading agpgart (actually intel_agp)
> > > > at all ? (I guess udev or hotplug is trying to load it here). Is there
> > > > something like agpgart for PCI express ? Or is it useless ?
> > >
> > >it's useless. though the loading of it shouldn't harm anything.
> > >Does it spew warnings during your boot ?
> > >  
> > >
> > No, I don't see any warning/problem.
>
>I'm curious how you noticed this change of behaviour at all then :-)
>(The only user visible change is that it no longer prints anything
> about agpgart during boot. Was that what tipped you off?)
>  
>
I simply noticed modprobe saying that agpgart didn't get loaded ("No
such device") during hardware detection. Nothing else. Nothing bad then.

Brice

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