Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:12:15 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, notting@redhat.com,
       rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order, take #2
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:07:57PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Kbuild now generates and installs modules.order along with modules.
> This patch updates depmod such that it sorts module list according to
> the file before generating output files.  Modules which aren't on
> modules.order are put after modules which are ordered by
> modules.order.
> 
> This makes modprobe to prioritize modules according to kernel
> Makefile's just as built-in modules are link-ordered by them.
> 
> This patch is against module-init-tools 3.3-pre1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Cc: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

thanks,

greg k-h
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