Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751861Ab2BZIId (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:08:33 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:49121 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751074Ab2BZIIc (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:08:32 -0500 Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com designates 10.68.227.105 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com Message-ID: <4F49E87B.1050708@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:38:27 +0530 From: Prasanna Kumar T S M User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Module Load order Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 608 Lines: 11 Is there any specific module load order in Linux? If there is a GPL driver and binary driver for a particular device which will be loaded? Is there any logic to load GPL driver built inside the kernel? Or is the module search and load is handled by some other component (like udev) and not the kernel? Sorry for my ignorance if I have asked this to a wrong list. -- 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/