Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261871AbVEKBW3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 21:22:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261872AbVEKBW2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 21:22:28 -0400 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:46522 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261871AbVEKBWH (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 21:22:07 -0400 Message-ID: <42815E63.5020508@didntduck.org> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 21:22:43 -0400 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1 (X11/20050323) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Per Liden CC: Greg KH , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release References: <20050506212227.GA24066@kroah.com> <20050509211323.GB5297@tsiryulnik> <20050510224112.GA4967@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: 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: 1213 Lines: 34 Per Liden wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > >>On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:17:12AM +0200, Per Liden wrote: >> >>>I'd like to get a better understanding of that as well. Why invent a >>>second on demand module loader when we have kmod? The current approach >>>feels like a step back to something very similar to the old kerneld. >> >>kmod is not used at all if you are running udev on your system. > > > Since when does udev load modules for you? And how would it know when to > load "device less" modules such as filesystems? > > >>It's also better to allow userspace to make the decision as to if it >>should load a specific module or not, not the kernel. > > > If you don't want a specific module to be loaded, then don't build it. > You just said that yourself in the blacklisting dicsussion remember? ;) > (hint: "Don't build the OSS modules at all?"). Think about distibution kernels that build everything possible. -- Brian Gerst - 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/