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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.

       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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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