From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Per Liden <per@fukt.bth.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:41:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050511174153.GA16353@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0505111824060.2216@1-1-2-5a.f.sth.bostream.se>
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 07:36:54PM +0200, Per Liden wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:56:01AM +0200, 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?
> >
> > It does not. That was my point :)
>
> Sorry, but I still don't get your point. Whether kmod is used or not is
> unrelated to the use of udev.
I was trying to point out that if you use udev, kmod is not used at all
to autoload modules when you try to open a device file for a driver that
is not present (as if the module isn't loaded, then the device file
would not be present to try to open.)
But I forgot about the filesystem stuff...
Hope this clears things up.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-11 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-06 21:22 [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Greg KH
2005-05-06 21:22 ` Greg KH
2005-05-08 22:52 ` Per Liden
2005-05-08 22:52 ` Per Liden
2005-05-09 21:13 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-09 21:13 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-10 22:17 ` Per Liden
2005-05-10 22:17 ` Per Liden
2005-05-10 22:41 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 22:41 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 23:56 ` Per Liden
2005-05-10 23:56 ` Per Liden
2005-05-11 1:22 ` Brian Gerst
2005-05-11 1:22 ` Brian Gerst
2005-05-11 5:33 ` Greg KH
2005-05-11 5:33 ` Greg KH
2005-05-11 17:36 ` Per Liden
2005-05-11 17:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-05-18 23:00 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:00 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:00 ` [PATCH][RFC] __request_module: fixed argument request_module with waitflag Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:00 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:01 ` [PATCH][RFC] request_modalias: MODALIAS based module loading Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:01 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:37 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-10 22:41 ` [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Greg KH
2005-05-10 22:41 ` Greg KH
2005-05-12 21:42 ` Greg KH
2005-05-12 21:42 ` Greg KH
2005-05-13 8:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-05-13 8:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-05-13 16:02 ` Greg KH
2005-05-13 16:02 ` Greg KH
2005-05-13 23:21 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-13 23:21 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-14 5:59 ` Greg KH
2005-05-14 5:59 ` Greg KH
2005-05-15 22:37 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 9:27 ` David Weinehall
2005-05-18 9:27 ` David Weinehall
2005-05-09 23:22 ` Greg KH
2005-05-09 23:22 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 21:51 ` Per Liden
2005-05-10 21:51 ` Per Liden
2005-05-11 5:36 ` Greg KH
2005-05-11 5:36 ` Greg KH
2005-05-09 3:57 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-09 3:57 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-09 23:21 ` Greg KH
2005-05-09 23:21 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 9:29 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-10 9:29 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-10 9:43 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 9:43 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 12:58 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-05-10 12:58 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-05-10 17:24 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 17:24 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:13 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 20:13 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 20:28 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-10 20:28 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-10 20:59 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 20:59 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 21:02 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 21:02 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:31 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:31 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:52 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 20:52 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 20:59 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-05-10 20:59 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-05-10 21:08 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 21:08 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 21:22 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-10 21:22 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-10 23:55 ` [PATCH] " Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-10 23:55 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 0:05 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 0:05 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 5:40 ` Greg KH
2005-05-11 5:40 ` Greg KH
2005-05-11 0:08 ` [PATCH] " Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 0:08 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 1:11 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 1:11 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 3:39 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 3:39 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 9:59 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 9:59 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 10:52 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 10:52 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 10:58 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 10:58 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 13:06 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 13:06 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-12 4:39 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-12 4:39 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-12 7:47 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-12 7:47 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-10 21:21 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-05-11 0:01 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 0:01 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 0:10 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 0:10 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 1:09 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 1:09 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 7:31 ` Christian Zoz
2005-05-14 23:02 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-05-14 23:02 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-05-16 19:11 ` Greg KH
2005-05-16 19:11 ` Greg KH
2005-05-16 21:24 ` Marco d'Itri
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2005-05-11 2:04 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
2005-05-11 2:04 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
2005-05-18 7:23 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
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