Re: [d-kernel] [kaos@ocs.com.au: Re: integration support for 2.6.0 kernel in modutils]

[Anton Farygin <rider@altlinux.com>]

Очень хорошо. И что будем делать ?


On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:19:48PM +0200, Gleb Stiblo wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:58:58 +1100
> From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
> To: Gleb Stiblo <g.stiblo@sam-solutions.net>
> Subject: Re: integration support for 2.6.0 kernel in modutils 
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> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:11:09 +0200, 
> Gleb Stiblo <g.stiblo@sam-solutions.net> wrote:
> >KO> I have received your mail but I am on vacation until January 30.
> >Hope your vacation was fine. So can we return to my question? :)
> 
> I had a look at your code over the weekend.  Sorry, but I do not want
> to include kernel 2.6 support in modutils while keeping the same config
> language.
> 
> The modutils 2.4 config language was never designed nor was it ever
> well defined.  The "language" just grew as people came up with ideas.
> There are nasty corner cases, recursion problems and features that
> people rely on but those features only work by accident.  I could never
> make changes to modutils config because it would break existing
> behaviour that people were replying on.
> 
> I was planning to completely redo the modutils config language for 2.6
> when Rusty came up with the in kernel linker.  To some extent I am glad
> that 2.6 has simpler features, there is less to go wrong.
> 
> If you want to use some of the more complex features of modutils 2.4
> configuration then the best approach is to extend mit with a well
> designed and documented config language.  Make sure that people agree
> what a featre should do before adding it.  Keeping the old and broken
> 2.4 config language will only propagate problems that I have been
> trying to get rid of for years.

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