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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:17:06 -0400
From: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Tips for module_init() dependencies
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Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 11:58 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>=20
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Possibly.
>>
>> A) Any suggestions on how? Can I express this in Kconfig or something
>> (i.e. "depends on FOO").  I currently have "select FOO" in the BAR
>> object, but this doesn't seem to be sufficient to describe the relatio=
nship.
>>
>> B) Do I have to make the entire chain follow suit? (I have C deps on B=
,
>> B deps on A kind of scenarios)
>=20
> Yeah, what Randy said .. As far as I know it should be just a build
> order issue .. In the make file when you specify your new module along
> with all the others where you put it is actually important .. In
> fs/Makefile you have this line,
>=20
> obj-$(CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS)       +=3D configfs/
>=20
> and I would guess you want yours after that line if your adding to that=

> makefile.

Right, that makes sense.  However, the problem is that these
dependencies might not have anything to do with ./fs per se and
therefore would not necessarily be in the ./fs Makefile.  But I think
the Makefile dependency idea in general is the right approach, so I will
experiment with this suggestion.

Kind Regards,
-Greg


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