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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] put symbolic links between drivers and modules in the sysfs tree
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:46:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040925164621.GA9098@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040925073819.GT23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:38:19AM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:29:44PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > This functionality is essential for us to work out which drivers are
> > supplied by which modules.  We use this in turn to work out which
> > modules are necessary to find the root device (and hence what
> > initrd/initramfs needs to insert).
> 
> So what will your userland code do when you run it on a system with
> non-modular kernel currently running?
> 
> IOW, that's a fundamentally broken interface - you really want the same
> information regardless of modular vs. built-in.

I agree, and Rusty has some pending patches that provide that
information for all drivers built into the system.  When they are
merged, this symlink will be created for those also (with a bit of
tweaking, but it will happen.)

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-25 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20 17:29 [RFC] put symbolic links between drivers and modules in the sysfs tree James Bottomley
2004-09-22 23:04 ` Greg KH
2004-09-22 23:06   ` Greg KH
2004-09-22 23:40     ` Greg KH
2004-09-25  7:38 ` viro
2004-09-25  8:05   ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-25  8:21     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-25 13:16       ` James Bottomley
2004-09-25 13:14   ` James Bottomley
2004-09-26 10:37     ` Herbert Xu
2004-09-26 13:09       ` James Bottomley
2004-09-25 16:46   ` Greg KH [this message]

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