From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@freya.yggdrasil.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch?: module-init-tools/modprobe.c - use modules.dep
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:45:10 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021126013330.8DC822C31D@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:54:42 -0800." <200211252254.OAA04288@freya.yggdrasil.com>
In message <200211252254.OAA04288@freya.yggdrasil.com> you write:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> >(you took out module alias support in your patch, though) 8(.
>
> Did not. See the routine get_alias() in my version.
No, you took out the part that reads the aliases from the module
itself (.modalias section).
> However, my version does not support:
>
> wildcard aliases,
> an alias that expands to multiple targets, or
> an alias that expands to an alias.
>
> It should only take a few lines to fix the first two.
See my wishlist for the second one (or/and support): this is a request
I got from someone.
> As for last, I'm not sure how useful aliasing to an alias really is.
Don't know. Combinations of and/or aliases would be easiest with
this, though.
> It wouldn't be the Manhattan Project to add it, but I'd rather not
> add a feature if it has no real use.
Good man!
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-26 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200211252254.OAA04288@freya.yggdrasil.com>
2002-11-26 0:45 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2002-11-26 7:40 ` [PATCH] Symbol name prefixes (e.g., `_') with the new module loader Miles Bader
2002-11-26 19:02 Patch?: module-init-tools/modprobe.c - use modules.dep Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 5:02 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-27 23:17 ` Keith Owens
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2002-11-25 19:16 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-25 23:34 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-21 15:39 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-25 5:47 ` Rusty Russell
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