Re: CONFIG_KMOD breakage in next kernel

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Sun Aug 24 2008 - 20:14:22 EST


On Thursday 21 August 2008 04:16:05 Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I found that CONFIG_KMOD was already removed in linux-next tree.
> > This seems to result in many breakages. For example, I cannot mount a
> > FAT device automatically because of failure of automatic loading of
> > nls modules.
>
> This is odd. I had posted a long series of patches removing all of the
> users I had found (similar grep like the one you used), see
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/9/150 for the whole thread.
>
>
> For some reason, only seven of those eleven patches ended up in the
> kernel, you had taken the alsa one and Rusty posted only six of them.

OK, not quite sure what happened. I'll grab the rest and push them into
tomorrow's linux-next.

For today, I'll pull out the CONFIG_KMOD removal.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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