On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 05:34:43 -0400 (EDT),
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>> In modutils 2.5 I will get rid of all the hard coded entries in
>> util/alias.h. Instead each module will define what it supports,
>> including any special commands to be run when the module is loaded or
>> unloaded. Much easier for everyone and far more flexible.
>
>Heh. OK, so you've stopped me in the middle of writing RFC that proposes
>addition of
>MODULE_CONF(string)
Strange, that was exactly what I was planning for 2.5 :).
>that would put that string into separate section and making modules_install
<pedantic>
depmod, not modules_install, depmod is run at other times.
</pedantic>
>dump these sections, feed them through s/_NAME_/`basename $module`/ and
kbuild 2.5 does -DKBUILD_OBJECT=module_name for all objects linked into
a module. KBUILD_OBJECT defines the overall module, not the individual
files that make up the module. We have the technology!
>cat them into defaults file that would go into $INSTALL_MOD_PATH.
Just another modules.* file, probably modules.dynamic.conf.
BTW, INSTALL_MOD_PATH is dead in kbuild 2.5, it is a configuration
option and is held in .config.
>MODULES_BLKDEV(), MODULE_LDISC(), etc. would be trivial wrappers around that.
Everything is a device and can be handled by the hotplug project. It
is really a cunning plan by David Brownell and Greg Kroah-Hartman to
own the entire device subsystem ;).
>Looks like the thing you mentioned would make quite a few people happy.
>Might be worth doing in 2.4...
Please, no more 2.4 changes. Let Linus get 2.4 stable, fork 2.5 so we
can break it on a daily basis then backport to 2.4 when it works.
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