Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:49:46 +0000 | From | John Levon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support. |
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:52:57AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Well, "modprobe foo" will only give you the "new_foo" driver if (1) the > foo driver isn't found, and (2) the new driver author decides that > it's a valid replacement.
It's not the driver author's decision as to which module an admin would like to use. This just seems to make things a lot more awkward.
> going to do this, I'd rather they did it in the kernel, rather than > some random userspace program.
Can you explain why please ?
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