Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release

[Per Liden]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:56:01AM +0200, Per Liden wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:17:12AM +0200, Per Liden wrote:
> > > > I'd like to get a better understanding of that as well. Why invent a 
> > > > second on demand module loader when we have kmod? The current approach 
> > > > feels like a step back to something very similar to the old kerneld.
> > > 
> > > kmod is not used at all if you are running udev on your system.
> > 
> > Since when does udev load modules for you?
> 
> It does not.  That was my point :)

Sorry, but I still don't get your point. Whether kmod is used or not is 
unrelated to the use of udev.

> > And how would it know when to load "device less" modules such as
> > filesystems?
> 
> Ah damm, I forgot about those pesky things.  Oh well, my plot to rid the
> kernel of kmod will take a few more years...

I'm relieved ;)

/Per
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