From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 23:30:48 +0200 To: Lucas De Marchi Cc: Lubomir Rintel , Lucas De Marchi , linux-modules , jeyu@kernel.org Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] modprobe: install default configuration Message-ID: <20170908213048.d4lwkemko53sqagb@bongo.bofh.it> References: <20170901112801.11703-1-lkundrak@v3.sk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i7occb6o45oxe4jg" In-Reply-To: From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) List-ID: --i7occb6o45oxe4jg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sep 08, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > Some network devices have an awful habit of creating interfaces when lo= aded, > > despite not asked for. Worse even, they do so while being autoloaded du= e to an > > attempt to create a device via netlink: I agree that this behaviour by dummy, bonding, etc is unfortunate and annoying; however, I do not believe that user space tools maintainers overriding the decisions of kernel maintainers will help creating an healty environment. As the Debian kmod maintainer I would also be seriously concerned about carrying this change since it would break existing configurations on upgrades. > It seems you forgot to follow up on the feedback I gave last time and > asked for opinions. >=20 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/336 I think that this would create excessive complexity and force everybody=20 to learn the semantics of this new directive. If you really believe that copying the whole file would be bad then just=20 split the directives in multiple files. --=20 ciao, Marco --i7occb6o45oxe4jg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGzBAABCAAdFiEEGBsIcS5ipP0URKfyK/WlwSLE96QFAlmzDAgACgkQK/WlwSLE 96Q7hQv/d0eAlwS6wCgzCJWewgtg6Vpqe9p3EZX/9sZfqFQoK00CXCOIF4062Rw9 mQ8//AiuV5blKzJm/k9lOIaiLNWsvvFVnxgRs2syidOYnvnoe/bpoJTOPBV/307q QPYaLEdDzNuuAJKz120d+aUvAD8HDQbBmeLKytuwgc7BEEW7154zi7Ct0ZWyAHmM zTt04ghc7YU4+JI3RMf4/pcrHaizOalQl2m67del1Th0j4FqEmX9I8IPfnfn0h1m mFZFAt7xZ1vF3QSUjEMkn1bwb6O/+f9km9wVFihw1gzYYJ5NC//xN0IFICXtYSnj KzIqtSSdOT7Ud8Lv/T6wp0Hmqq49m4Roo1KvKHdSUIpqjuQHdDjoMWl/Vfke7peE K5fO5THrzPWDr3uEoZ/+2e8wynTXk/sznNiGYCT3CcGQv5foM/8lw/mNZHCIi9o7 XFn0P2mUhzgl63EKdM8C3mS4WDZjymVrrYg03+NxF/MJLWnyvItXQKhlIyVuGtvN 7C4xyqvW =M6U/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i7occb6o45oxe4jg--