From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753268AbYIZU42 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:56:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751672AbYIZU4V (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:56:21 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.239]:49868 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750912AbYIZU4U (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:56:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=LOGwqJxwE/fhiWUEe98xLDFJqQa19GKdCQIsk55S35XGAdEWBRsxsyTpPBZHxUjVrb /po8KQ1XeP5NDbkV45r9ZLsf1/zzZkhmjM3pDa8xSBW8DjtVQktX+s4OzXbnVXIDMuRr E0RnGg15do6cwP1LeH22y9A0CQ/ZMliivYJ/I= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:56:19 -0400 From: "Parag Warudkar" To: "Greg KH" Subject: Re: [patch 00/04] RFC: Staging tree (drivers/staging) Cc: "Stefan Richter" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andreas Gruenbacher" , "Jeff Mahoney" In-Reply-To: <20080926201917.GA2591@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080925020608.GA13869@suse.de> <20080925042108.GA3931@suse.de> <20080925205328.GB11225@suse.de> <20080925220454.GA12116@suse.de> <48DD2BA3.7050808@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20080926201917.GA2591@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Greg KH wrote: > If you really don't like it, just never enable any of these modules, > you'll never be bothered by it. So you are saying if a distro ships allmodconfig kernels or ships the crap modules in the hope that people will find them useful and I have one of the devices in my machine that I don't care about - I should just let the crap module autoload and crash/taint my kernel or take the special step of blacklisting all of them or build my own kernel - as unreasonable as ever. Or are you saying distros should not build the crap modules - that doesn't make sense since it will drastically reduce the usage and delay the identification of problems until later. If they weren't loaded automatically - it will simplify things a lot - people with those devices willing to use those modules can forcibly load the ones they require - that gives you your beloved TAINT and avoids any core kernel changes. No offense but I don't think is helping Greg. So I will stop. Parag