From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@oss.sgi.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.12-rc4-mm[12] - ULOG problem
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 00:08:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050519000809.2fca25c5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116486385.21310.82.camel@uganda>
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason for being able to do that?
>
> It was created to be able to load several different connector devices
> from different modules [basically it was module1.ko unit=10, module2.ko
> unit=11 and so on].
Loading multiple instances of the same module so that we get multiple
instances of its data structures? That's fairly ghastly.
We should remove the feature. If there is demonstrated need for multiple
instances then it should be done by more conventional means - syscall,
allocation of a device major then use the minor as a selector or whatever.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-19 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-19 3:24 Fw: 2.6.12-rc4-mm[12] - ULOG problem Andrew Morton
2005-05-19 4:49 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-19 5:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-19 6:31 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-05-19 6:45 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-19 7:06 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-05-19 7:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-05-19 7:27 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-05-19 13:19 ` James Morris
2005-05-19 16:53 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-19 17:09 ` James Morris
2005-05-19 18:54 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-19 18:48 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-20 6:27 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-05-19 18:42 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-20 6:27 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-05-19 18:44 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-20 6:39 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-05-20 11:42 ` jamal
2005-05-20 14:15 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-05-19 13:16 ` Fw: " James Morris
2005-05-19 13:46 ` jamal
2005-05-19 18:49 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-20 6:25 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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