Re: CONFIG_KMOD breakage in next kernel

From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Wed Aug 20 2008 - 21:49:26 EST


Hi Johannes,

> > > I found that CONFIG_KMOD was already removed in linux-next tree.
> > > This seems to result in many breakages. For example, I cannot mount a
> > > FAT device automatically because of failure of automatic loading of
> > > nls modules.
> > >
> > > My particular problem would be fixed by the patch below, but I found
> > > CONFIG_KMOD is still referred in many places.
> >
> > I am happy to fix the net/bluetooth/ part, you someone has to put out a
> > guideline how this should be fixed.
>
> Bluetooth was already part of http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/9/144
>
> Basically, I got rid of CONFIG_KMOD, always enabling it when
> CONFIG_MODULES is defined and making it a dummy no-op inline when not.

I missed the patches, but that happens from time to time. Just looked at
them and they look pretty nice. I like it this way.

Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards

Marcel


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