Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946178AbWJTXoQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:44:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423250AbWJTXoQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:44:16 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.231]:51443 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423239AbWJTXoQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:44:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BfkUn6SagCUm64V3O0RwVCp7OGJBvCQCefslYrbLbzFrb/lZKqe+ti/0p4+Szebc4PyIlNVzCB9U8cHujIdKQpvdgQgJK3fyhxG3pBXhkI7sC82RFuqOQWk0+ODjaxzPtX5yyTzGL8REV/XN/e1r2PFf8E5u8ngy0QR4zMsWkow= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:44:15 +0800 From: "Michael Ruan" To: yh@bizmail.com.au Subject: Re: kernel internal built in module loading order Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <453953EC.3000407@bizmail.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 19 >Hi, >Does the kernel load internal built in modules (obj-y) in a certain >order, or in a random order? Does the kernel internal module loading >based on a configuration file? >I am running an ARM system, is there a way to delay the Ethernet module >loading until some other internal modules are loaded? >Thank you. Yes, it follows some rules. Please refer to the "3.2 Built-in object goals - obj-y" section of your kernel_source_root/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/