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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
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.

[snip]


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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~Randy
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