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SubjectRe: [RFC] put symbolic links between drivers and modules in the sysfs tree
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:29:44PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> This functionality is essential for us to work out which drivers are
> supplied by which modules. We use this in turn to work out which
> modules are necessary to find the root device (and hence what
> initrd/initramfs needs to insert).

So what will your userland code do when you run it on a system with
non-modular kernel currently running?

IOW, that's a fundamentally broken interface - you really want the same
information regardless of modular vs. built-in.
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