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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
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On Thursday 01 July 2004 12:54, Marco Gerards wrote:
> ebik@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Tomas Ebenlendr) writes:
> >> But how is _chain loaded?  If it is not in core you can not call
> >> those functions, right?
> >
> > Having a file depmod.lst which says chain depends on _chain, grub
> > automatically loads _chain. That works in cvs version. This file is
> > generated when compiling grub.
>
> Okuji, what do you think?  I don't know anything about module
> loading.

Using depmod.lst is the right way to resolve dependencies among modules. 
But, before applying his patch, I'd like to wait until his copyright 
assignment is finished.

Okuji