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Subject: Re: module mess in -CURRENT
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 00:59, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> People who find the current module situation difficult can just compile in 
> the stuff they need for now.

That makes driver debugging almost impossible. It also makes building a
test kernel set for a lot of boxes impractical. The completely broken
unload stuff is going to be a real pig, PCMCIA only works modular and
doesn't work now the unloads are all broken. OTOH the module rewrite has
some nice features and a combo modutils is going to sort some of the
problem out fairly easily.

The biggest need though is documentation so people can actually fix all
the drivers for this stuff.




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