From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] RFC drivers/usb/storage/libusual
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:15:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1128978904.8218.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050928170133.5406f8f4.zaitcev@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 17:01 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > - request_module() is icky. I keep wanting to get rid of that
> > function, and really don't want to see any further users get added.
> > But that's just my feeling, if there's no other way to do this, I
> > don't mind.
>
> Yes, yes, and yes. And also, it looks to me as if I am trying to do
> something which "obviously" belongs to modprobe or other user mode
> component. The trouble is, I am unable to find a different solution
> which would not involve an alias pointing to an alias, and Rusty's
> modprobe does not allow that. I could hack it up easily, but he
> put in a comment, "that way lies madness". He probably knew what
> he was doing.
I just didn't want to do loop detection. In userspace you can use an
install command to get the same effect.
Now, why did we want this? In small words...
Rusty.
--
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-28 3:55 RFC drivers/usb/storage/libusual Pete Zaitcev
2005-09-28 8:52 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Greg KH
2005-09-28 19:40 ` Alan Stern
2005-09-29 0:01 ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-10-10 21:15 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2005-10-07 7:24 ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-10-07 14:41 ` [usb-storage] " Alan Stern
2005-10-08 7:35 ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-10-08 15:17 ` Alan Stern
2005-10-08 21:01 ` usb: drivers/usb/storage/libusual Pete Zaitcev
2005-10-09 2:14 ` [usb-storage] " Matthew Dharm
2005-10-09 8:09 ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-09-28 16:56 ` [linux-usb-devel] RFC drivers/usb/storage/libusual Alan Stern
2005-09-29 2:21 ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-09-30 7:09 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Phil Dibowitz
2005-10-01 0:26 ` Pete Zaitcev
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1128978904.8218.2.camel@localhost.localdomain \
--to=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
--cc=zaitcev@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).