On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> However, for inclusion in the kernel, it is not needed. Quite simply,
> mii.c is essentially a library, and it needs absolutely no
> initialization nor cleanup at all. Thus, it is a bug in the module
> loader that any code changes at all are required.
I'm afraid it's not.
> There exists a no_module_init tag, which is in theory the proper fix for
> this problem under rusty's system, but that is itself a bug: it's
> redundant just like the silly EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS tag -- it's stating the
> obvious. The module loader needs to notice a lack of init_module and
> exit_module and handle it accordingly.
It does.
I reread the discussion on this, and I still don't see what great
benefit the new loader brings, or why it was allowed to break all the
existing modules.
A software interface is a contract between caller and service. As long
as it doesn't change you can rewrite either side of it without breaking
the other. That reduces maintenance and is something I thought was
standard software engineering, best practices, etc.
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