linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/04] RFC: Staging tree (drivers/staging)

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Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:56:19 -0400
From:	"Parag Warudkar" <parag.lkml@...il.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	"Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andreas Gruenbacher" <agruen@...e.de>,
	"Jeff Mahoney" <jeffm@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/04] RFC: Staging tree (drivers/staging)

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

> If you really don't like it, just never enable any of these modules,
> you'll never be bothered by it.

So you are saying if a distro ships allmodconfig kernels or ships the
crap modules in the hope that people will find them useful and I have
one of the devices in my machine that I don't care about - I should
just let the crap module autoload and crash/taint my kernel or take
the special step of blacklisting all of them or build my own kernel -
as unreasonable as ever.

Or  are you saying distros should not build the crap modules - that
doesn't make sense since it will drastically reduce the usage and
delay the identification of problems until later.

If they weren't loaded automatically - it will simplify things a lot -
people with those devices willing to use those modules can forcibly
load the ones they require - that gives you your beloved TAINT and
avoids any core kernel changes.

No offense but I don't think is helping Greg. So I will stop.

Parag
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