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

From: Samium Gromoff
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 12:41:15 EST


> 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.
Wouldn`t this remove the last reason to fix the broken software?

> Regards,
>
> Bas.

regards, Samium Gromoff


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