Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release

Greg KH
2005-05-11T05:33:36Z

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