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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 02/15] module: Introduce ksys_finit_module()
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 11:49:09AM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
> 
> Introduce ksys_finit_module() to let kernel components request a kernel
> module without requiring running modprobe.

That does sound more than sketchy, even more so because the commit log
completely fails to explain why you'd need to do that.