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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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