Re: [idea] request_module(const char *fmt, ...);

[Tigran Aivazian]

> > Except in exceptional cases, run-time performance is far more important than
> > compilation time, surely?
> 
> those exceptional cases, e.g. loading a binary will be given a bit more
> thought and performance analysis. If we find less than 0.01% degradation
> then the beauty argument wins. (I hope).

actually I thought you meant the opposite, i.e. in exceptional cases run
time performance is more important than compilation time, which is why I
gave loading a binary example. In all other cases (e.g. requesting a
module when opening a device an extra function call is exactly what I
called it - "almost nothing"). In cases where it adds substantial overhead
of re-walking through the entire list (e.g. get_fs_type which walks
through file_systems) the caller should (and does) check the return from
request_module() and only does the extra work if it is == 0.

Regards,
Tigran.