From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758535AbYABLOP (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:14:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752130AbYABLOB (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:14:01 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]:22916 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752032AbYABLOA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:14:00 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VOtySHkWjE12bMIv/4cUrfRvyT5YvTjT5rZ7Xej8kKvBxk/x1PMw3zo6tDLLNdQfEd0XxXVSCqcqBlWLpKZKeyPyfAmf+30mNIx7ttj/qdoEfbXaarbPEyWFOXPbGyO6RDzVztKKigCOAzCluwzIHw6hZz6ztOTPCI6fis+8y74= Message-ID: <477B71F0.8020706@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:13:52 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel , notting@redhat.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order, take #2 References: <475936CE.70703@gmail.com> <4759379D.8090201@gmail.com> <475BB5AE.40503@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <475BB5AE.40503@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 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 Tejun Heo wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Kbuild now generates and installs modules.order along with modules. >> This patch updates depmod such that it sorts module list according to >> the file before generating output files. Modules which aren't on >> modules.order are put after modules which are ordered by >> modules.order. >> >> This makes modprobe to prioritize modules according to kernel >> Makefile's just as built-in modules are link-ordered by them. >> >> This patch is against module-init-tools 3.3-pre1. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo >> Cc: Sam Ravnborg >> Cc: Bill Nottingham >> Cc: Rusty Russell >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman >> Cc: Kay Sievers > > The kernel part is in now. Rusty Russell, what do you think about this > depmod change? Ping? -- tejun