From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:23:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:23:12 -0500 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237]:61180 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:23:11 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 13/07/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <20030117085728.1C0FF2C186@lists.samba.org> References: <20030117085728.1C0FF2C186@lists.samba.org> To: Rusty Russell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [module-init-tools] fix weak symbol handling Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:32:09 +0000 Message-ID: <2607.1042795929@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org rusty@rustcorp.com.au said: > If A depends on B, then modprobe will give a warning if "modprobe A" > fails to load B for some reason. If B doesn't exist, then modprobe > wouldn't know anything about it (presumably). A warning is fine. If A _weakly_ depends on B, a failure to load A even though B decided when asked that it didn't really want to initialise itself is not fine :) -- dwmw2