de-modularising for the win!

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Fri Oct 3 17:45:07 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:25:50PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
 > Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said: 
 > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
 > >  > Bill Nottingham wrote:
 > >  > > See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.)
 > >  > 
 > >  > Also, please add these, since they're nearly always loaded (patch is on
 > >  > top of yours):
 > > 
 > > I think this makes sense to do now as a stop-gap, but one day,
 > > I hope we can get to a situation where we do modprobe of such
 > > things based on a config file instead of always doing it. 
 > 
 > Ideally the DM layer would be able to request_module() the map type
 > whenever necessary.

Wherever possible, yes that would be even better.

	Dave

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