[Pm-utils] [PATCH 1/6] Split hook running into two phases -- core and aux

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:49 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Remember: almost all of those hooks are only workarounds for breakage
> that needs to be properly fixed anyway. So with that convention you
> are only encouraging people to write sophisticated hooks instead of
> fixing the real issue. This is fundamentally wrong and contradicts the
> original goal of the project IMVHO.

Well, I agree to some extent. Most of the module unloading and loading
stuff is for people to make stuff work, when the real fix is to fix the
driver.

I'm all for a cleanup and having a formal spec of what happens when, but
don't engineer it too much else even I won't understand it.

Richard.