Re: [PATCH] Make agpsupport work with modversions

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:14:01PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The only other users are 8390.h and a couple of mtd things. I don't see
> > why this stuff cannot be handled in userspace with /etc/modules.conf ...
> > 
> > should get_module_symbol() die ?
> 
> You need it to dynamically bind to another module if its loaded and still be
> loadable if that module/facility is not present. Its dynamic linking for kernel
> modules 

Well, this is usually handled by a third module that takes care of
registering/unregistering the existence of the two modules that need to
be possible to load/unload separately.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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