de-modularising for the win!
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Oct 3 17:45:07 UTC 2008
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:25:50PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said:
> > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> > > Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions.
> > > >
> > > > Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.)
> > >
> > > Also, please add these, since they're nearly always loaded (patch is on
> > > top of yours):
> >
> > I think this makes sense to do now as a stop-gap, but one day,
> > I hope we can get to a situation where we do modprobe of such
> > things based on a config file instead of always doing it.
>
> Ideally the DM layer would be able to request_module() the map type
> whenever necessary.
Wherever possible, yes that would be even better.
Dave
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