From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Per Liden <per@fukt.bth.se>
Cc: Per Svennerbrandt <per.svennerbrandt@lbi.se>,
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:41:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050510224112.GA4967@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0505102351300.8637@1-1-2-5a.f.sth.bostream.se>
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. It's
also better to allow userspace to make the decision as to if it should
load a specific module or not, not the kernel.
And it allows us to get rid of the kmod code entirely :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-06 21:22 [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Greg KH
2005-05-08 22:52 ` Per Liden
2005-05-09 21:13 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-10 22:17 ` Per Liden
2005-05-10 22:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-05-10 23:56 ` Per Liden
2005-05-11 1:22 ` Brian Gerst
2005-05-11 5:33 ` Greg KH
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 23:01 ` [PATCH][RFC] request_modalias: MODALIAS based module loading Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:37 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-10 22:41 ` [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Greg KH
2005-05-12 21:42 ` Greg KH
2005-05-13 8:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-05-13 16:02 ` Greg KH
2005-05-13 23:21 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-14 5:59 ` Greg KH
2005-05-18 9:27 ` David Weinehall
2005-05-09 23:22 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 21:51 ` Per Liden
2005-05-11 5:36 ` Greg KH
2005-05-09 3:57 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-09 23:21 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 9:29 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-10 9:43 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 12:58 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-05-10 17:24 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:13 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 20:28 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-10 20:59 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 21:02 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:31 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:52 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 20:59 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-05-10 21:08 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 21:22 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-10 23:55 ` [PATCH] " Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 0:05 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 5:40 ` Greg KH
2005-05-11 0:08 ` [PATCH] " Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 1:11 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 3:39 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 9:59 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 10:52 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 10:58 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 13:06 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-12 4:39 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-12 7:47 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 0:01 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 0:10 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 1:09 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 7:31 ` Christian Zoz
2005-05-14 23:02 ` Michael Tokarev
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>
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