Re: module mess in -CURRENT

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 20:05:22 EST


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:59:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > Linus, please backout that patch until we a) have modutils that support
> > both the new and old code and b) support at least such basic features
> > as parsing modules.conf and supporting parameters.
>
> Quite frankly, at this time a backout means that the thing doesn't go in
> _at_all_.

Probably. Or just the non-intrusive parts.

> It came in before the feature freeze, but I decided that instead of having
> a totally hectic time I woul dmerge stuff that I got before the freeze at
> my own leisure, but backing it out now would be basically saying it's not
> going into 2.6.x. And I think it's worth it.

I don't think it's a must have and absolutely don't think it's worth
breaking about everything at this stage. Please tell me why rusty can't
send a large number of non-intrusive patches that do one thing at a
time just like everyone else?
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