Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:58:42 Robby Workman wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 5 May 2009, Robby Workman wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 5 May 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Robby Workman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> generate-modprobe.conf | 281
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>> If you look at "git-log generate-modprobe.conf", you see it's had
>>>> multiple patches submitted this year. Now, given the history of m-i-t
>>>> development, it's possible that the patches were just extremely
>>>> delayed and no-one will care if you delete it. But I think you should
>>>> CC the patch authors and find out why they cared enough to submit them
>>>>
>>> Okay, fair enough, but it's my understanding that all of the backwards
>>> compat stuff for older modutils is being removed, and since part of the
>>> aim of this patchset was to help in that regard, generate-modprobe.conf
>>> had to go. :-) I'm hoping Jon will weigh in on this, but if not, I'll
>>> check with the other authors.
>>>
>> CC'd Martin Schlemmer and Mike Frysinger on this
>>
>
> ugh, m-i-t changed mailing lists yet again w/out any notice. can someone
> please post an announce to the old mailing list.
>
It was sent to the old mailing list. It's possible it wasn't working at
the time. I can't link you to a web archive since they had definitely
stopped working by that point, so I've attached my copy to this message.
>
>> guys, do you know of
>> some reason that this should stay? From what I've gathered on IRC with
>> Jon and others, all of the backwards-compat stuff with old modutils is
>> essentially gone (or will be soon), so I don't see a reason for the
>> generate-modprobe.conf file to hang around. Perhaps I'm missing something
>> though, so here's your chance :-)
>>
>
> ideally, genereate-modprobe.conf should go away, but there are still packages
> out there that only do /etc/modules.d/. if we assume distros are taking care
> of them to convert to modprobe.d/, then no, we no longer need generate-
> modprobe.conf. Gentoo has converted most packages, but there's still a small
> handful left ...
> -mike
>
That's interesting to know. If it's still being used for development
but not migrating live systems, there might be reasons to keep it - but
we could still strip out all the references to it from the documentation.
Alan
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Folks,
I would like to draw your attention to linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
which was just created a few minutes ago.
As you may have noticed, the existing mit-devel list has been a little
wonky and in need of replacement for a while. The server it runs on had
to get moved a while back and the mailman instance has a couple of
issues (archiving mostly) that were less than ideal. Besides, it's nice
to use kernel.org :)
So...let's revive the mailing list in its new home. I'm going to drop a
line to the gmane guys, and update existing references to the new
address.
Jon.
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