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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>,
	Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore module support.
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:25:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030206232515.GA29093@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302062358140.32518-100000@serv>

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:09:27AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to stop here, since I don't think you understand what I am
> > proposing, nor how the current system works: this makes is extremely
> > difficult to describe changes, and time consuming.
> 
> Rusty, if you continue to ignore criticism, I have only one answer left:
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/restore-modules-2.5.59.diff

But what are the modutils numbers? :)

Come on, what Rusty did was the "right thing to do" and has made life
easier for all of the arch maintainers (or so says the ones that I've
talked to), and has made my life easier with regards to
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() logic, which will enable the /sbin/hotplug
scripts/binary to shrink a _lot_.

thanks,

gre gk-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-06 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ 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
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 [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-06 23:49 [PATCH] Restore module support Adam J. Richter
2003-02-07  8:26 Rusty Russell
2003-02-07 10:05 ` Russell King
2003-02-08  4:32   ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-07 18:43 Luck, Tony
2003-02-07 19:50 ` Russell King
2003-02-07 21:15 Luck, Tony

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