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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>,
	linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: generate modules.builtin
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:16:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5E390E.2040004@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc43514a0907151312l34bc6c92m7986fd1f99cfca2c@mail.gmail.com>

Andreas Robinson napsal(a):
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Michal Marek<mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>> The idea is that modprobe should just do nothing and exit successfully,
>> so that scripts don't break nor start printing warnings if the kernel
>> config changes. I meant to send it to linux-modules once there is
>> agreement about the modules.builtin file format.
> 
> Ok, that makes sense.
> 
> I think there's a small chance of confusion though, when a user tries
> to insert a module and it doesn't show up with lsmod. Perhaps you can
> add an info() message? Then the user can figure out what is happening
> with the --verbose option.

Good idea, will do that.

Michal

      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-15 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-26 15:25 [PATCH] kbuild: generate modules.builtin Michal Marek
2009-05-27 21:26 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-27 21:38   ` Scott James Remnant
2009-07-03 14:45 ` Michal Marek
2009-07-15 16:39   ` Scott James Remnant
2009-07-15 16:46     ` Kay Sievers
2009-07-15 18:04       ` Andreas Robinson
2009-07-15 19:08         ` Michal Marek
2009-07-15 20:12           ` Andreas Robinson
2009-07-15 20:16             ` Michal Marek [this message]

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