Re: [RFC] Is an alternative module interface needed/possible?

Thomas Molina (tmolina@cox.net)
Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:45:10 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Werner Almesberger wrote:

> Good :-) I want to avoid modules as much as possible, because
> they've extensively been tackled in the past (which didn't help
> much making the interfaces better), and also because they're
> just a bit too political an issue.
>
> Okay, this brings us to the issue of broken interfaces. Do we
> have agreement that there are cases where interfaces like
> remove_proc_entry, in their current state, cannot be used
> correctly ?

I hope this discussion is taking place in the context of looking forward
towards something to implement in 2.7. IMHO we are much too late in the
2.5 cycle to implement this now.

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