From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267132AbUBMRjc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:39:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267134AbUBMRjc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:39:32 -0500 Received: from [212.5.174.154] ([212.5.174.154]:26305 "EHLO zelcom.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267132AbUBMRjb (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:39:31 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:38:19 +0300 Message-ID: <87lln6op6c.wl@canopus.ns.zel.ru> From: Samium Gromoff To: ml@basmevissen.nl CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shut up about the damn modules already... User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Rusty Russell wrote: > > > Please apply before 2.6.3. > > > > In almost all distributions, the kernel asks for modules which don't > > exist, such as "net-pf-10" or whatever. Changing "modprobe -q" to > > "succeed" in this case is hacky and breaks some setups, and also we > > want to know if it failed for the fallback code for old aliases in > > fs/char_dev.c, for example. > > > > Just remove the debugging message which fill people's logs: > > Yup, those messages are really annoying. > > I'm wondering why it is that the kernel is asking for non-existing > modules so often. Is it that userspace applications try to access all > kinds of devices too often (autoprobing) or it this (wanted) kernel > behaviour? > > If it is the former, I think that applications should be fixed in the > first place. Maybe userspace and kernel should share knowledge about > what devices are there and supported by the kernel(modules). > > In the meantime, your patch needs to go in though because fixing this in > userspace is not something that will happen on short term. Wouldn`t this remove the last reason to fix the broken software? > Regards, > > Bas. regards, Samium Gromoff