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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
	"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module alias and table support
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:40:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021129034011.GA12711@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021128041136.35CA02C081@lists.samba.org>

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:14:29PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> Hopefully this is back together: the device-table-to-aliases stuff is
> a separate step which can be argued on its own, and I think will
> probably have to wait for 2.7 unless Greg is going to champion it.
> 
> The real win is simplicity and independence from the kernel
> datastructures (which probably won't change during 2.6 anyway).

Which, imho, is worth championing!  :)

I'm going to be in Austin next week, and I'll have some free time in the
evenings, so I'll try to take a look at your previous patch and see if I
can change it a bit to resolve the minor problems I had with it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-29  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-27 20:54 [PATCH] Module alias and table support Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 21:53 ` David Brownell
     [not found]   ` <20021127142006.A24246@adam.yggdrasil.com>
2002-11-27 22:59     ` David Brownell
2002-11-28 23:39       ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-28  3:14   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-28  6:44     ` David Brownell
2002-11-28 22:01       ` David Brownell
2002-11-29  3:26         ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-29 19:56           ` Gerd Knorr
2002-11-29  1:28       ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-29  3:40     ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-11-27 22:40 ` 2.5 modutils getting back device " David Brownell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-28  0:22 [PATCH] Module alias and " Adam J. Richter
2002-11-28  1:48 ` David Brownell
2002-11-28  4:45 ` Keith Owens
2002-11-27  6:25 David Brownell
2002-11-26  4:52 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26  3:26 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26  3:49 ` Greg KH
2002-11-14  1:19 Rusty Russell
2002-11-20  8:23 ` Greg KH
2002-11-24 23:34   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-25 21:36     ` Greg KH
2002-11-25 23:42       ` Rusty Russell

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