Re: [PULL] fixes (inc. softdep) & try to to remove unused modules first

[Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Masters wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for your patches. As I mentioned below, I'm pulling everything
> but the rename removal (for reasons explained). There is a pre2 version
> of 3.12 in git and I made tarballs last week, but I am waiting until
> pre3 this week before I make an announcement. Then the final 3.12 should
> just be exactly the same if nothing horrible comes up in testing.
>   

Great.

> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:27 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>
>   
> > Alan Jenkins (8):
> > (fixes)
> >       doc: fix typo
> >       doc: fix sgml errors
> >       modprobe: fix dump_config
> >       modprobe: fix softdep flags
> >     
>
> Thanks, these are great. I guess a markup validator would be handy. Are
> you building the SGML with different flags, tools, or did I miss it?
>   

I've been using the debian package "docbook-to-man" (via the Makefile, 
no custom flags).  It's always been a bit noisy, and the errors didn't 
stop it from generating the manpages.

> On the softdep front, I think it's also worth fixing the ignore flags to
> actually offer a choice of ignoring install *or* remove but not both.
> The current implementation doesn't do what might be apparent.
>   

Not sure what you have in mind here.  Do we want something that's not 
covered by

   modprobe -i ...

and

   modprobe -i -r ...

?  Or should we check for and reject "--remove --ignore-install"?  Or is 
the code just ugly in some respect?

Thanks
Alan
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