Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754448AbYKPQNy (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:13:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753111AbYKPQNq (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:13:46 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:49655 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753109AbYKPQNp (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:13:45 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:13:42 +0100 From: "Kay Sievers" To: "Tejun Heo" Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order, take #2 Cc: "Jon Masters" , "Rusty Russell" , "Sam Ravnborg" , "Linux Kernel" , notting@redhat.com, "Greg KH" In-Reply-To: <491FAEB8.5010501@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <475936CE.70703@gmail.com> <475BB5AE.40503@gmail.com> <477B71F0.8020706@gmail.com> <200801031012.22776.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <1199318319.2044.22.camel@perihelion> <491C1158.8090901@gmail.com> <1226776813.4894.1.camel@jcmlaptop> <491FAEB8.5010501@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1040 Lines: 26 On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:25, Tejun Heo wrote: > Jon Masters wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:36 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >> >>> Jon, this patch hasn't made into module-init-tools >> >> I'm redoing it to cope with the binary sorted output files we have now - >> i.e. we can't just rely upon the order of modules.dep any more, what >> you're actually trying to do with modules.order is ensure that e.g. >> modules providing conflicting aliases get handled in "order". > > Yes, that's right. Ah... so, now modules.dep is sorted to speed up > module look up? It's a match tree, stored in a binary file format, not a specific ordering. > Is this code already in module-init-tools? http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.git;a=summary Kay -- 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/