Alan Jenkins napsal(a): > On 7/3/09, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Andreas Robinson napsal(a): >>> And a loose idea: >>> >>> * Deprecate and eventually remove modules.dep (i.e the text file) >>> handling from modprobe. Rationale: Why have two ways to do the same >>> thing? Is there a need to edit the dependencies directly? >> Modprobe could check the timestamp of modules.dep and print a warning if >> it's newer (= edited) than modules.dep.bin. > > No, that's not it. It's a fallback for backwards compatibility. I meant in case modules.dep handling is removed from modprobe but the file stays, modprobe could warn if it's newer than modules.dep.bin. I'm not against removing the text files completely. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
