Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756292AbZGOUM7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:12:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756248AbZGOUM6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:12:58 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com ([209.85.220.218]:36512 "EHLO mail-fx0-f218.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756225AbZGOUM5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:12:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aX7VehL920RqN/OHQzRCLUTL2xExNozD3TAgF2SD6aRxOWRXj+AKWcWfbO5oddxtsh 45eBrVCMdJelfust33qNCyBGk/hj74dxSMUYhZo26/rV86EQwoYmruZ/DbDe3/HZAdq5 AZFXIp8iC2zK9T53p85362nleUS0b6gjTLxwk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A5E2944.2070904@suse.cz> References: <20090526152540.GA28341@sepie.suse.cz> <20090703144547.GA20980@sepie.suse.cz> <1247675954.3968.140.camel@quest> <4A5E2944.2070904@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:12:55 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: generate modules.builtin From: Andreas Robinson To: Michal Marek Cc: Kay Sievers , Scott James Remnant , linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1209 Lines: 31 On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Michal Marek wrote: > Andreas Robinson napsal(a): >> Guys, >> >> is this patch what you need on the m-i-t end? > > I already have patches here (it's not against Jon's master, but it > should apply): > http://repo.or.cz/w/mit.git?a=commit;h=45c29de1b54478a63352a3f13c570a964903f54f > http://repo.or.cz/w/mit.git?a=commit;h=0e72912a1e0b486225f7052c8d40e28b07ff4495 Ah, of course! > The idea is that modprobe should just do nothing and exit successfully, > so that scripts don't break nor start printing warnings if the kernel > config changes. I meant to send it to linux-modules once there is > agreement about the modules.builtin file format. Ok, that makes sense. I think there's a small chance of confusion though, when a user tries to insert a module and it doesn't show up with lsmod. Perhaps you can add an info() message? Then the user can figure out what is happening with the --verbose option. Andreas -- 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/