Re: [PATCH] binfmt_misc.c, kernel-2.4.12

[Alexander Viro]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Keith Owens wrote:

> >MODULES_BLKDEV(), MODULE_LDISC(), etc. would be trivial wrappers around that.
> 
> Everything is a device and can be handled by the hotplug project.  It
> is really a cunning plan by David Brownell and Greg Kroah-Hartman to
> own the entire device subsystem ;).

No-go - we need that for filesystems.  But that's a separate story - if
MODULE_CONF() is there life already becomes much easier.
 
> >Looks like the thing you mentioned would make quite a few people happy.
> >Might be worth doing in 2.4...
> 
> Please, no more 2.4 changes.  Let Linus get 2.4 stable, fork 2.5 so we
> can break it on a daily basis then backport to 2.4 when it works.

I suspect that in this case s/2.5/2.4-ac/ might be a possibility.  Since
we are talking about defaults, nothing is going to break if file simply
doesn't exist.  So teaching modprobe to handle it if it's there would
be a compatible change and would allow testing the kernel side of that
stuff.  Alan?