On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:39:25 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:05:46 +0100 > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:23:02PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:41:11 +0100 > > > Jurriaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:43:36PM +0300 > > > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:54:49 +0100 > > > > > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It seems noone who reviewed the SuperIO patches noticed that there > > > > > > are > > > > > > now two modules "scx200" in the kernel... > > > > > > > > > > They are almost mutually exlusive(SuperIO contains more advanced), > > > > > so I do not see any problem here. > > > > > Only one of them can be loaded in a time. > > > > > > > > > > So what does exactly bother you? > > > > > > > > > lsmod in bugreports giving unspecific results, for example. > > > > > > If you load scx200 from superio subsystem, then obviously you can not > > > use old i2c/acb modules which require old scx200. > > > And vice versa. > > > > > > One needs to load exactly what he wants. > > > > You did not understand what Jurriaan said: > > > > Even if it was working, "lsmod" would not be able to tell which of the > > two modules was loaded. > > > > This would cause much headache for many people. > > > Module is just a piece of code, or programm if someone may think. > And there no problems when we type > $ ps > and see only "aterm", if someone wants to know what exactly means "aterm", > one can run ps axufw. > And even with the case of lsmod: one can see that scx200 will or will not > depend on superio, and that will explain everything. >
There are so many problems and ambiguites with having non-unique module names it is not even funny: - when I modprobe scx200 what willI get? - if I want to blacklist one of the modules (let's say hotplug) how do I do that? - lsmod (with everything else compiled in, possible?) - which one is loadded? ...etc, etc... -- Dmitry - 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/
