Re: Where did vm_operations_struct->unmap in 2.4.0 go?

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:12:47 -0800 (PST)


On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> But I have no particular attachment to it. All I'm asking for is a way to
> avoid having init order dependencies where previously there was no need
> for them, by having a way to put entries in the inter_module_get() table
> at compile time.

Note that previously there _were_ order dependencies. In fact, I consider
it very tasteless to have modules that act differently on whether another
module is loaded. I saw some arguments saying that this is th "right
thing", and I disagree completely.

Linus

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