Re: RFD: Do we want modules loading modules?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
28 Jun 1998 08:23:52 GMT


Followup to: <m0yqCZm-00001cC@rasty.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
By author: paul@rasty.ph.unimelb.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> As I said, I don't really care either way, but given the above negative
> feedback, I was interested to know what others thought of the idea of
> modules loading modules.
>

Sounds like a bad idea to me. If it can be handled by depmod, then it
should.

-hpa

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