Re: [PATCH] Shut up about the damn modules already...

[Bas Mevissen]

Rusty Russell wrote:

> Please apply before 2.6.3.
>
> In almost all distributions, the kernel asks for modules which don't
> exist, such as "net-pf-10" or whatever.  Changing "modprobe -q" to
> "succeed" in this case is hacky and breaks some setups, and also we
> want to know if it failed for the fallback code for old aliases in
> fs/char_dev.c, for example.
>
> Just remove the debugging message which fill people's logs:

Yup, those messages are really annoying.

I'm wondering why it is that the kernel is asking for non-existing 
modules so often. Is it that userspace applications try to access all 
kinds of devices too often (autoprobing) or it this (wanted) kernel 
behaviour?

If it is the former, I think that applications should be fixed in the 
first place. Maybe userspace and kernel should share knowledge about 
what devices are there and supported by the kernel(modules).

In the meantime, your patch needs to go in though because fixing this in 
userspace is not something that will happen on short term.

Regards,

Bas.


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