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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: tyler@agat.net
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kmod optimization
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:24:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060413182401.GA26885@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060413180345.GA10910@Starbuck>

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:03:45PM +0200, tyler@agat.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the request_mod functions try to load automatically a module by running
> a user mode process helper (modprobe).
> 
> The user process is launched even if the module is already loaded. I
> think it would be better to test if the module is already loaded.

Does this cause a problem somehow?  request_mod is called _very_
infrequently from a normal kernel these days, so I really don't think
this is necessary.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-13 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-13 18:03 [PATCH] Kmod optimization tyler
2006-04-13 18:19 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-04-13 18:57   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-13 18:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-04-13 18:36   ` tyler
2006-04-13 18:50     ` Greg KH
2006-04-13 19:04       ` tyler
2006-04-13 22:53         ` Roman Zippel
2006-04-13 23:13         ` Greg KH
2006-04-14 10:57           ` tyler
2006-04-13 19:10     ` Paulo Marques
2006-04-13 19:17       ` tyler

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