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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/31] Add a lot of module alias statements
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:49:51 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 18:46 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
>
> > I don't get how it could make any difference in terms of performance.
> > As far as I know, all the module aliases that come from the kernel are
> > assembled into /lib/modules/$version/modules.alias when the kernel is
> > installed, and that file must be processed by modprobe the exact same
> > way another configuration file would. Or am I missing something?
>
> With current modprobe those files are turned into a binary index that
> can be read and processed *much* faster.

What would prevent the same binary index from being generated from
user-provided module aliases?

--
Jean Delvare


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