Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:40:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:40:17 -0500 Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.93]:25353 "EHLO serenity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:40:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:49:46 +0000 From: John Levon To: Rusty Russell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support. Message-ID: <20030203024946.GA90036@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <200302012302.h11N2R3U001433@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> <20030203022709.83AA52C0A7@lists.samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203022709.83AA52C0A7@lists.samba.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18fWg6-000LYI-00*NuNaPonI2IM* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 21 On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:52:57AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > Well, "modprobe foo" will only give you the "new_foo" driver if (1) the > foo driver isn't found, and (2) the new driver author decides that > it's a valid replacement. It's not the driver author's decision as to which module an admin would like to use. This just seems to make things a lot more awkward. > going to do this, I'd rather they did it in the kernel, rather than > some random userspace program. Can you explain why please ? regards john - 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/