From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:46:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:46:41 -0400 Received: from ip240.cvd2.rb1.bel.nwlink.com ([207.202.151.240]:22652 "EHLO zot.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:46:28 -0400 To: Riley Williams To: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz To: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? In-Reply-To: From: Mark Atwood Date: 07 Aug 2001 14:46:33 -0700 In-Reply-To: Riley Williams's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:04:09 +0100 (BST)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Riley Williams writes: > > > Described above. > > What KERNEL problems then? I don't see any yet. I smell the stench of finger pointing. It's a pity that it stinks jsut as bad in the open source world as it is I am "privileged" when closed source shops, or (even worse) telco/network folks start playing "blameball". Userspace init scripts point the finger at kernel, saying "there is no good and no well documented mapping method". Kernel points its finger at userspace, saying "this is the way we do it" and "we cant guarantee a perfect 100% mapping solution, so we're not even going to try for 90%" and "futz with your drivers and modules.conf and init scripts till you get something that works". Fingers back and forth, fingers pointing all around and those of us with lots of different interfaces, and those of us with several hot-plug interfaces What happens to us? We get the finger. -- Mark Atwood | I'm wearing black only until I find something darker. mra@pobox.com | http://www.pobox.com/~mra