Re: [RFC] No more module_* hooks

From: Chris Wright (chrisat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 10:38:39 PDT

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    * Crispin Cowan (crispinat_private) wrote:
    >
    > On the one hand, my instinct says that it is bad to confound the 
    > permissive capable() interface with the restrictive other hook 
    > interfaces: that breaks the abstraction, making the interface harder to 
    > understand.
    
    capable() is already a broken (or at least inconsistent) interface.
    It is not always permissive.  Basically the idea is to make it strictly
    permissive.
    
    thanks,
    -chris
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