From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:33:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Message-Id: <20050511053320.GC8287@suse.de> List-Id: References: <20050506212227.GA24066@kroah.com> <20050509211323.GB5297@tsiryulnik> <20050510224112.GA4967@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Per Liden Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 :) > And how would it know when to load "device less" modules such as > filesystems? Ah damm, I forgot about those pesky things. Oh well, my plot to rid the kernel of kmod will take a few more years... greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ids93&alloc_id281&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