[openib-general] one request

[ron minnich]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Roland Dreier wrote:

> 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.

oops, my bad. Stupid of me!

running modprobe is still not acceptable, however, on bproc systems. 
There's way too many assumptions going on about local file systems and 
binary availability that fail badly on bproc nodes.

ron