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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:49:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030203024946.GA90036@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030203022709.83AA52C0A7@lists.samba.org>

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:52:57AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:

> Well, "modprobe foo" will only give you the "new_foo" driver if (1) the
> foo driver isn't found, and (2) the new driver author decides that
> it's a valid replacement.

It's not the driver author's decision as to which module an admin would
like to use. This just seems to make things a lot more awkward.

> going to do this, I'd rather they did it in the kernel, rather than
> some random userspace program.

Can you explain why please ?

regards
john

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-03  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-31  0:09 [PATCH] Module alias and device table support Rusty Russell
2003-01-31  6:23 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-31  9:41   ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-31 15:42     ` Ingo Oeser
2003-01-31 22:33   ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-01  0:48     ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-01  1:22       ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-01  2:59         ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-01 10:31           ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-01  3:49   ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-01  7:20     ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-01 23:02     ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-03  0:52       ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-03  2:49         ` John Levon [this message]
2003-02-03 10:34           ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-04  9:56             ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-05  0:00               ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-03  8:31         ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-03 10:52           ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-04  8:05             ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-04  8:51               ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-06 23:09                 ` [PATCH] Restore module support Roman Zippel
2003-02-06 23:25                   ` Greg KH
2003-02-07  0:01                     ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-07  4:06                       ` Greg KH
2003-02-07  9:39                         ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-07 18:01                         ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-07  0:10                     ` Russell King
2003-02-07  4:53                       ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-07 10:03                         ` Russell King
2003-02-07  6:12                       ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-07  9:46                         ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-04 14:49               ` [PATCH] Module alias and device table support Roman Zippel
2003-02-03 13:40           ` Roman Zippel
     [not found] <20030201073007$5418@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030201073007$3e7f@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-02-01 10:36   ` Arnd Bergmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-04 17:25 Adam J. Richter
2003-02-04 17:45 Adam J. Richter
2003-02-05  0:17 ` Rusty Russell

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