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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	arashi@arashi.yi.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mii module broken under new scheme
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:46:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14517.1037735191@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7FA0E2B042A@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>


VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz said:
>  Rusty told me that it is intentional. Add
> no_module_init;
> at the end of module. He even sent patch which fixes dozen of such
> modules (15 I had on my system...) to Linus, but it get somehow lost.

> Only question is whether we want to have it this way or no.

Some questions you might want to consider before that one:

1. How do we handle "insmod -odummy0 dummy.o ; insmod -odummy1 dummy.o"

2. When does the module name differ from the filename (modulo .o) ?

3. Given your answers to #1 and #2, is the module name redundant anyway?

--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-19 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-19 18:14 [PATCH] mii module broken under new scheme Petr Vandrovec
2002-11-19 18:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-19 19:46 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-19 22:23 Rusty Russell
2002-11-19 18:21 Petr Vandrovec
2002-11-19 18:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-19 22:07   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-19 21:49 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-19 17:50 Matt Reppert
2002-11-19 17:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-19 18:15   ` Matt Reppert
2002-11-19 21:38   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-19 18:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-21 21:34   ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-19 19:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-02  4:51 ` Rusty Russell

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