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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:39:44 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore module support.
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Hi,

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg KH wrote:

> > There should be no real difference as I'd like to integrate Kai's patch too.
> 
> Ok, I'm confused, you're advocating putting back the old modutils
> interface, but somehow not using the old modutils code?  I don't
> understand.

No, I'm advocating to break as little as possible. I'm certainly willing 
to port any interesting feature from Rusty's patches. If one feature 
requires changes to modutils, that's fine.

> Neither one of those proposals, no any others, were backed with working
> examples.  Rusty had the only working example of getting rid of the
> userspace knowledge of the kernel data structures that I know of so far.

1. In the past I posted enough example code, which was pretty much 
ignored, why should I think it would be any different this time?
2. Is hotplug that broken, that it wouldn't survive 2.6, so it required a 
complete new implementation? If that should be case I herewith volunteer 
to add module alias support to modutils.

bye, Roman

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