Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:55:58 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/31] Add a lot of module alias statements |
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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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