Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] RFC drivers/usb/storage/libusual
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:15:04 +1000
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On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 17:01 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> >   - request_module() is icky.  I keep wanting to get rid of that
> >     function, and really don't want to see any further users get added.
> >     But that's just my feeling, if there's no other way to do this, I
> >     don't mind.
> 
> Yes, yes, and yes. And also, it looks to me as if I am trying to do
> something which "obviously" belongs to modprobe or other user mode
> component. The trouble is, I am unable to find a different solution
> which would not involve an alias pointing to an alias, and Rusty's
> modprobe does not allow that. I could hack it up easily, but he
> put in a comment, "that way lies madness". He probably knew what
> he was doing.

I just didn't want to do loop detection.  In userspace you can use an
install command to get the same effect.

Now, why did we want this?  In small words...
Rusty.
-- 
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman

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