Re: CONFIG_KMOD breakage in next kernel

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Johannes,

> > > I found that CONFIG_KMOD was already removed in linux-next tree.
> > > This seems to result in many breakages.  For example, I cannot mount a
> > > FAT device automatically because of failure of automatic loading of
> > > nls modules.
> > > 
> > > My particular problem would be fixed by the patch below, but I found
> > > CONFIG_KMOD is still referred in many places.
> > 
> > I am happy to fix the net/bluetooth/ part, you someone has to put out a
> > guideline how this should be fixed.
> 
> Bluetooth was already part of http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/9/144
> 
> Basically, I got rid of CONFIG_KMOD, always enabling it when
> CONFIG_MODULES is defined and making it a dummy no-op inline when not.

I missed the patches, but that happens from time to time. Just looked at
them and they look pretty nice. I like it this way.

Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

Regards

Marcel