Messages in this thread | | | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] put symbolic links between drivers and modules in the sysfs tree | Date | Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:37:00 +1000 |
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James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> wrote: > >> So what will your userland code do when you run it on a system with >> non-modular kernel currently running? > > Not put a module in the initial ramdisk, since it would be unnecessary. > The only information the patch seeks to add is the linkage between > driver and module. So you can work back from sysfs to know which > devices have which modules
You're assuming that the kernel before/after the reboot have the same configuration. This is false in general. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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