From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [module-init-tools] fix weak symbol handling
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:32:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2607.1042795929@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030117085728.1C0FF2C186@lists.samba.org>
rusty@rustcorp.com.au said:
> If A depends on B, then modprobe will give a warning if "modprobe A"
> fails to load B for some reason. If B doesn't exist, then modprobe
> wouldn't know anything about it (presumably).
A warning is fine. If A _weakly_ depends on B, a failure to load A even
though B decided when asked that it didn't really want to initialise itself
is not fine :)
--
dwmw2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-17 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-13 19:04 [module-init-tools] fix weak symbol handling Richard Henderson
2003-01-14 3:16 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-15 1:14 ` Richard Henderson
2003-01-17 1:57 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-17 2:09 ` Richard Henderson
2003-01-17 7:34 ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-17 8:56 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-17 9:32 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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