Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 19:07:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 19:07:25 -0500 Received: from theirongiant.zip.net.au ([61.8.0.198]:41422 "EHLO theirongiant.zip.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 19:07:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:06:32 +1100 From: CaT To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Anton Altaparmakov , "Michael H. Warfield" , lobo@polbox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC-ONT (on topic)] Modprobe enhancement (was Re: "Dance of the Trolls") Message-ID: <20011112110632.D991@zip.com.au> In-Reply-To: <004601c16b0b$8b04bb80$f5976dcf@nwfs> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004601c16b0b$8b04bb80$f5976dcf@nwfs> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organisation: Furball Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:49:46PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Anton, > > This is a great suggestion. You should ping Keith Owens (does he own > modutils, I think so) and make it happen. A much desireable change. Only if you can turn it off (ie a -[Yy] flag) as I don't really want my boot sequence to hang just because I bought a geforce card so that I could play my 3d games nice and fast. And well, since you may need to turn it off so that your boot sequence doesn't hang (and more often then not that's where you'll first install the module) then it makes the option rather useless. Then there's the autoload feature. Do I really want to have my mount /cdrom command hang on me because somewhere something wants to ask me a question? Will this all be interfaced with X so that a prompt comes up? Again, you'd wind up turning it off which makes it less useful still. (Unless, ofcourse, I'm missing something) -- CaT "As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating through my mind." - Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang, Singapore Zoological Gardens - 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/