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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore module support.
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:46:15 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302071042410.1336-100000@serv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302070006110.31954-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu>

Hi,

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Kai Germaschewski wrote:

> So you have the choice of either sticking to the solution which was 
> previously used (only that it's now done in the kernel, not in modutils), 
> or doing something new and more efficient.

Where is the problem to do the "new and more efficient" in modutils?

> Now, what's the reason you're not happy with that? You've got more
> flexibility than before, and you can even switch between different ways
> without having to teach an external package about it, so you avoid the
> compatibility issues when kernel and modutils are not in sync.

Where is the problem with updating user space tools? We should certainly 
reduce dependencies, but moving everything into the kernel source can't be 
the answer either.

bye, Roman


  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-07  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-31  0:09 [PATCH] Module alias and device table support Rusty Russell
2003-01-31  6:23 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-31  9:41   ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-31 15:42     ` Ingo Oeser
2003-01-31 22:33   ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-01  0:48     ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-01  1:22       ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-01  2:59         ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-01 10:31           ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-01  3:49   ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-01  7:20     ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-01 23:02     ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-03  0:52       ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-03  2:49         ` John Levon
2003-02-03 10:34           ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-04  9:56             ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-05  0:00               ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-03  8:31         ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-03 10:52           ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-04  8:05             ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-04  8:51               ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-06 23:09                 ` [PATCH] Restore module support Roman Zippel
2003-02-06 23:25                   ` Greg KH
2003-02-07  0:01                     ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-07  4:06                       ` Greg KH
2003-02-07  9:39                         ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-07 18:01                         ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-07  0:10                     ` Russell King
2003-02-07  4:53                       ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-07 10:03                         ` Russell King
2003-02-07  6:12                       ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-07  9:46                         ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2003-02-04 14:49               ` [PATCH] Module alias and device table support Roman Zippel
2003-02-03 13:40           ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-06 23:49 [PATCH] Restore module support Adam J. Richter
2003-02-07  8:26 Rusty Russell
2003-02-07 10:05 ` Russell King
2003-02-08  4:32   ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-07 18:43 Luck, Tony
2003-02-07 19:50 ` Russell King
2003-02-07 21:15 Luck, Tony

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