Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support. | Date | Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:17:05 +1100 |
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In message <200302041745.JAA16796@adam.yggdrasil.com> you write: > Rusty Russell responded to someone else (whom Rusty didn't name, and > whom I didn't immediately find in the archives): > >"insmod foo" will *always* get foo. The only exception is when "foo" > >doesn't exist, in which case modprobe looks for another module which > >explicitly says it can serve in the place of foo. > > I think perhaps we should separate the name spaces so that the > kernel never modprobes for an actual module file name. In other > words, there would only be three ways in which a module would > "automatically" be loaded:
This sounds like a good idea to me: the current approach is very ad-hoc. I think we're headed in the right direction, for example the alias patch introduces "pci:" and "usb:" prefixes for hotplug (and if you look very hard, there's already a "symbol:" prefix, unused, in the tree).
Thanks! Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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