Oh, I meant to reply sooner but was in Japan last week...so I just thought I had sent this reply already :) On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 15:30 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote: > We could remove the text files, I guess it's just a question of when. > The intention was to keep them to ease the transition, and in case of > future transitions (binary format changes). But the binary format > seems stable now. I like the text files. They're reassuring, don't consume space, and people can use them to see what's going on with modules. I don't think that it's particularly ugly to have a human readable version around. > modules.dep has a manpage, but it's not used externally. People who > want to know module dependencies are just running modprobe -D. We've > already broken modules.dep as an interface (changed absolute paths to > relative paths) and no-one noticed. We should definitely remove the > manpage. Agreed about killing the manpage. I'll do that. Jon. -- 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
