From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
Linux-Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.0-test11 BK: sg and scanner modules not auto-loaded?
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:49:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031221004909.GA2356@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031221003020.63E6A2C0B8@lists.samba.org>
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:04:59PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> It's been argued that kmod should place a request with the hotplug
> subsystem, rather than call modprobe, but that's a little too radical
> for me just yet.
That's not too radical, just requires a small script addition in
userspace that actually runs modprobe based on a specific hotplug event.
In all we'd probably only reduce the kernel by the size of the modprobe
array, and the sysctl table, which isn't all that much.
Put it on the 2.7 list :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-21 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20031218091404.4b2f743b.akpm@osdl.org>
2003-12-19 0:03 ` Fw: 2.6.0-test11 BK: sg and scanner modules not auto-loaded? Rusty Russell
2003-12-19 18:10 ` Greg KH
2003-12-20 3:04 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-21 0:49 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-12-21 1:25 ` Matthias Andree
2003-12-21 12:37 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-21 12:44 ` Matthias Andree
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