Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:37:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:37:43 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:37124 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:37:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3DDA8698.7050006@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:44:40 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petr Vandrovec CC: Matt Reppert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: [PATCH] mii module broken under new scheme References: <7FA2FEC6B51@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> In-Reply-To: <7FA2FEC6B51@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 26 Petr Vandrovec wrote: > I think that retrieving module name from module's binary is wrong: I > need to have dummy.o (network driver) insmodded two times to get my > test environment up. agreed... this requirement is why the redundant no_module_init is needed :( > I do not think that it is correct that I must add multiple device support > to the dummy due to new module loader, and creating two dummy.o, > with different .modulename sections, also does not look like reasonable > solution to me. The promise of minimal driver breakage is rapidly fading away. Jeff, still grumbling from last email message :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/