Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 May 2005 21:22:43 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release |
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Per Liden wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > >>On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:17:12AM +0200, Per Liden wrote: >> >>>I'd like to get a better understanding of that as well. Why invent a >>>second on demand module loader when we have kmod? The current approach >>>feels like a step back to something very similar to the old kerneld. >> >>kmod is not used at all if you are running udev on your system. > > > Since when does udev load modules for you? And how would it know when to > load "device less" modules such as filesystems? > > >>It's also better to allow userspace to make the decision as to if it >>should load a specific module or not, not the kernel. > > > If you don't want a specific module to be loaded, then don't build it. > You just said that yourself in the blacklisting dicsussion remember? ;) > (hint: "Don't build the OSS modules at all?").
Think about distibution kernels that build everything possible.
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