Messages in this thread |  | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support. | Date | Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:51:23 +1100 |
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In message <200302040805.h1485lhI002898@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> you write: > > It's undefined for the "in the config file case" (they curently *do* > > override, but that's an implementation detail). It'd be clearer to > > explicitly say "you can't override module names with "alias", use > > "install" instead, IMHO. > > Urgh. What is "alias" then for? It has been used for ages as a way of "call > module foo by name bar, possibly with this further arguments". Why change > that gratuitously?
I'm going to stop here, since I don't think you understand what I am proposing, nor how the current system works: this makes is extremely difficult to describe changes, and time consuming.
Sorry, 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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