Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release

Per Liden
2005-05-11T17:39:15Z

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:56:01AM +0200, Per Liden wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:17:12AM +0200, Per Liden wrote:
> > > > I'd like to get a better understanding of that as well. Why invent a
> > > > second on demand module loader when we have kmod? The current approach
> > > > feels like a step back to something very similar to the old kerneld.
> > >
> > > kmod is not used at all if you are running udev on your system.
> >
> > Since when does udev load modules for you?
>
> It does not. That was my point :)

Sorry, but I still don't get your point. Whether kmod is used or not is
unrelated to the use of udev.

> > And how would it know when to load "device less" modules such as
> > filesystems?
>
> Ah damm, I forgot about those pesky things. Oh well, my plot to rid the
> kernel of kmod will take a few more years...

I'm relieved ;)

/Per