[openib-general] one request
Roland Dreier
roland at topspin.com
Tue Aug 24 09:50:49 PDT 2004
ron> This solution is not workable in bproc systems, so I am
ron> posting this letter to request that nobody use this type of
ron> solution in the newer openib software. We void daemons like
ron> the plague, so we're not going to run daemons that allow this
ron> type of demand-loading of drivers. Please don't have kernel
ron> modules demand load other kernel modules.
Oh yeah... one other point... request_module() does not use any
daemon. The kernel simply execs modprobe to load the module it's
looking for.
- R.
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