Re: [PATCH 00/31] *** SUBJECT HERE ***
From: Scott James Remnant
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 13:50:11 EST
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 18:46 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I don't get how it could make any difference in terms of performance.
> As far as I know, all the module aliases that come from the kernel are
> assembled into /lib/modules/$version/modules.alias when the kernel is
> installed, and that file must be processed by modprobe the exact same
> way another configuration file would. Or am I missing something?
>
With current modprobe those files are turned into a binary index that
can be read and processed *much* faster.
Scott
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