From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: CONFIG_KMOD breakage in next kernel Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:13:58 +1000 Message-ID: <200808251013.58975.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> References: <1219256165.3502.10.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Takashi Iwai , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Stephen Rothwell , LKML , netdev@vger.kernel.org, video4linux-list@redhat.com To: Johannes Berg Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1219256165.3502.10.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thursday 21 August 2008 04:16:05 Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > > 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. > > This is odd. I had posted a long series of patches removing all of the > users I had found (similar grep like the one you used), see > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/9/150 for the whole thread. > > > For some reason, only seven of those eleven patches ended up in the > kernel, you had taken the alsa one and Rusty posted only six of them. OK, not quite sure what happened. I'll grab the rest and push them into tomorrow's linux-next. For today, I'll pull out the CONFIG_KMOD removal. Thanks, Rusty.