Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support.

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 03:51:23 EST


In message <200302040805.h1485lhI002898@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> you write:
> > It's undefined for the "in the config file case" (they curently *do*
> > override, but that's an implementation detail). It'd be clearer to
> > explicitly say "you can't override module names with "alias", use
> > "install" instead, IMHO.
>
> Urgh. What is "alias" then for? It has been used for ages as a way of "call
> module foo by name bar, possibly with this further arguments". Why change
> that gratuitously?

I'm going to stop here, since I don't think you understand what I am
proposing, nor how the current system works: this makes is extremely
difficult to describe changes, and time consuming.

Sorry,
Rusty.

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