Gunther Mayer wrote: > More module interdependencies == More complicated == More clueless users With module autoloading, they don't have to care about module interdependencies. The primary thing people care about is what string is passed to modprobe. When that changes, things break. As long as that doesn't change, you are ok. Who cares if two or five or ten helper modules are automatically pulled in, and who cares if that list of helper modules changes... Functionally speaking, the user is completely unaware of the change. > Many users will be surprised if they must load another module (e.g."pci_multiio") > to get their parallel and serial ports working. > > Thus _must not_ happen in the stable release. Agreed. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Sam: "Mind if I drive?" Building 1024 | Max: "Not if you don't mind me clawing at the dash MandrakeSoft | and shrieking like a cheerleader." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (seria... Jeff Garzik
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (s... Tim Waugh
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (s... Gunther Mayer
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.... Jeff Garzik
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (s... Martin Mares
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (seria... Tim Waugh
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (s... Jeff Garzik
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.... Tim Waugh
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.... Gunther Mayer
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in... Tim Waugh
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in... Jeff Garzik
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.... Gunther Mayer
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in... Jeff Garzik
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (s... Gérard Roudier
- Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.... Gunther Mayer
- Re: Multi-function PCI devices Michael Reinelt
- Re: Multi-function PCI devices Tim Waugh
- Re: Multi-function PCI devices Michael Reinelt
- Re: Multi-function PCI devices Gérard Roudier
- Re: Multi-function PCI devices Michael Reinelt
- Re: Multi-function PCI devices Jeff Garzik