Re: [PATCH] Shut up about the damn modules already...

[Samium Gromoff <deepfire@sic-elvis.zel.ru>]

> Rusty Russell wrote:                                                                   
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>  > Please apply before 2.6.3.                                                           
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>  > In almost all distributions, the kernel asks for modules which don't                 
>  > exist, such as "net-pf-10" or whatever.  Changing "modprobe -q" to                   
>  > "succeed" in this case is hacky and breaks some setups, and also we                  
>  > want to know if it failed for the fallback code for old aliases in                   
>  > fs/char_dev.c, for example.                                                          
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>  > Just remove the debugging message which fill people's logs:                          
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>  Yup, those messages are really annoying.                                               
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>  I'm wondering why it is that the kernel is asking for non-existing                     
>  modules so often. Is it that userspace applications try to access all                  
>  kinds of devices too often (autoprobing) or it this (wanted) kernel                    
>  behaviour?                                                                             
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>  If it is the former, I think that applications should be fixed in the                  
>  first place. Maybe userspace and kernel should share knowledge about                   
>  what devices are there and supported by the kernel(modules).                           
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>  In the meantime, your patch needs to go in though because fixing this in               
>  userspace is not something that will happen on short term.                             
Wouldn`t this remove the last reason to fix the broken software?

>  Regards,            
> 
>  Bas.                                                                  

regards, Samium Gromoff