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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:05:46 BST."
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:51:23 +1100
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In message <200302040805.h1485lhI002898@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> you write:
> > It's undefined for the "in the config file case" (they curently *do*
> > override, but that's an implementation detail).  It'd be clearer to
> > explicitly say "you can't override module names with "alias", use
> > "install" instead, IMHO.
> 
> Urgh. What is "alias" then for? It has been used for ages as a way of "call
> module foo by name bar, possibly with this further arguments". Why change
> that gratuitously?

I'm going to stop here, since I don't think you understand what I am
proposing, nor how the current system works: this makes is extremely
difficult to describe changes, and time consuming.

Sorry,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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