netdev - Re: CONFIG_KMOD breakage in next kernel

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Message-Id: <200808251013.58975.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:13:58 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	video4linux-list@...hat.com
Subject: Re: CONFIG_KMOD breakage in next kernel

On Thursday 21 August 2008 04:16:05 Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I found that CONFIG_KMOD was already removed in linux-next tree.
> > This seems to result in many breakages.  For example, I cannot mount a
> > FAT device automatically because of failure of automatic loading of
> > nls modules.
>
> This is odd. I had posted a long series of patches removing all of the
> users I had found (similar grep like the one you used), see
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/9/150 for the whole thread.
>
>
> For some reason, only seven of those eleven patches ended up in the
> kernel, you had taken the alsa one and Rusty posted only six of them.

OK, not quite sure what happened.  I'll grab the rest and push them into 
tomorrow's linux-next.

For today, I'll pull out the CONFIG_KMOD removal.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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