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From: Randy Dunlap on 25 May 2010 18:40 On Tue, 25 May 2010 15:16:38 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers(a)vrfy.org> > > This adds: > alias: devname:<name> > to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading > of the kernel module when the device node is accessed. > > Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too > much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common > cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty > useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts. [snip] I have no objection to this patch or to it being merged. I just note that this patch was posted to lkml on 2010-May-20. If it causes any problems, it can easily be reverted. I think that some (other, non-gregkh and non-davem) maintainers take far too long to merge some patches. Maybe it's just a merge window thing. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |