On Wednesday 2011-01-19 17:20, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >> As a resident contributor, I stand behind the changes. In the unlikely >> even that it breaks, I see it as duty to fix it. The churn is on me >> already practically. > >It's quite likely that something breaks. Module aliases only work for >loading modules, not for unloading them. So there's a big chance that >some scripts will break. Scripts can not rely on that being successful: Xtables modules may pull in other modules, including using things like nf_ct_get_l3proto which do not leave a trace in `lsmod` output. So rmmodding of xt modules can fail _even_ in the present situation. Not to mention that scripts currently have to battle the mulitple prefixes that are in use (which the patchset addresses in part). Since modinfo not following aliases has bothered myself for some time now, I should probably just add that to m-i-t modinfo as an option and, while at it, rmmod. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
