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
next prev parent 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
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[not found] ` <20030201073007$3e7f@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-02-01 10:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
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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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