From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing Lists <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: module-init-tools/udev and module auto-loading
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:33:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040203193351.GY21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075830486.7473.32.camel@nosferatu.lan>
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:48:06PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > I guess there will be cries of murder if 'somebody' suggested that if
> > > a node in /dev is opened, but not there, the kernel can call
> > > 'modprobe -q /dev/foo' to load whatever alias there might have been?
Vetoed. _Especially_ when you are checking that on "pathname prefix"
level - namei.c is not a place for such special-casing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-03 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-01 22:31 Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02 0:10 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-02 19:02 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 0:55 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-03 4:55 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 17:48 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 19:33 ` viro [this message]
2004-02-03 20:47 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 20:53 ` viro
2004-02-03 21:34 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-04 1:22 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-04 2:04 ` viro
2004-02-04 3:43 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-02 5:21 ` Greg KH
2004-02-02 18:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-02 19:14 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02 19:13 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-02 7:20 "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-02-02 7:34 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 15:00 "Andrey Borzenkov"
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