Re: [PATCH] Speed up modprobe and MAKEDEV

[Bernie Innocenti <bernie codewiz org>]

Kyle McMartin wrote:
> Ah, I'm glad to see others working on this! I'd not seen the Mandriva
> efforts, but I should really poke at them as I'd turned modprobe into
> a library and started integrating it into udev.

What an un-unixish design!

One could achieve the same performance with a trivial change that would 
keep modprobe and udev independent and simple:

  cat | modprobe --stdin
  radeon
  drm
  foo
  FATAL: Module foo not found.
  e1000
  ^D

Well, you get the idea... :-)

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