From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop some attibutes from the FC transport class Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:08:55 -0800 Message-ID: <20050119230855.GA5646@kroah.com> References: <20050119171357.GA16136@lst.de> <20050119172106.GB32702@kroah.com> <20050119213924.GG5508@us.ibm.com> <20050119224016.GA5086@kroah.com> <20050119230350.GA23553@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:46541 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261965AbVASXJI (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:09:08 -0500 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0JN97CO640122 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:09:07 -0500 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id j0JN97Um455918 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:09:07 -0700 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0JN96m8003283 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:09:06 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050119230350.GA23553@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: jejb@steeleye.com, James.Smart@Emulex.Com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:03:50PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:40:16PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > I had a patch to do that around here somewhere, but I think it was > > rejected as people can get the same info by using 'modinfo' instead. > > You know, the old, "use a userspace tool instead of wasting kernel > > memory" argument :) > > How's that supposed to work for builtin drivers? Look at /sys/modules these days. It shows all builtin modules now :) Oh wait. I get your point. Hm, I don't know. Want me to dig up the patch? It also added such unneeded things as module author and license just to be "complete". thanks, greg k-h