From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 04:24:24 +0000 Subject: Re: Non-hardware devices like loop: another idea Message-Id: <20040318042424.GA5517@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <200403122003.00557.patrakov@ums.usu.ru> In-Reply-To: <200403122003.00557.patrakov@ums.usu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:03:00PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > I found my implementation rather clumsy and while implementing it I decided > that it would be better to just mark such modules and modprobe tham all, and > make the hotplug script modprobe other stuff. I decided to start implementing > such mark... and found that it has already been done, so actually no patches > are needed except for the udev initscript! > > I am talking about /lib/modules//modules.alias. Take a look at a distro's modules.alias file. With your scheme you would have them load every possible module. Not a good idea :) Sorry, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel