Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:10:15 +0100
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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Subject: Re: modprobe + request_module() deadlock
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At Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:04:16 +0500,
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > Can we add a module dependency manually somehow?
> 
> Yes, recommend the user to add something like this to /etc/modprobe.conf:
> 
> install a modprobe -i a ; modprobe b ; true
> 
> But IMHO Rusty should provide a way to specify those "recommended" install
> lines in the modules themselves (so that they finally go
> to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias or a similar autogenerated file),
> like that's already done wih aliases and char-majors.

Well, how about to add a new marker in the driver code such as

	MODULE_DEPENDS_ON("somemodule");

so that depmod can pick it up?


Takashi
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