Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 May 2010 15:39:12 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading |
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On Tue, 25 May 2010 15:16:38 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> > > This adds: > alias: devname:<name> > to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading > of the kernel module when the device node is accessed. > > Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too > much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common > cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty > useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.
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I have no objection to this patch or to it being merged.
I just note that this patch was posted to lkml on 2010-May-20.
If it causes any problems, it can easily be reverted.
I think that some (other, non-gregkh and non-davem) maintainers take far too long to merge some patches. Maybe it's just a merge window thing.
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