From: "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey.kornilov@gmail.com>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Cc: linux-modules <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod: Make dependency loops be fatal
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 22:50:49 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <536D2389.7060800@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140509184502.GC584@intel.com>
09.05.2014 22:45, Lucas De Marchi пишет:
>> Do I understand you correctly that your patch fails to create modules.dep
>
> I'd say it avoids losing the previous, valid modules.dep.
When building an RPM package, we don't have the previous one.
> This is what I'm arguing for... dependency loops are bugs in kernel
> modules that should rather be fixed instead of papering over.
>
> Btw, I don't think they are that common since we never received a bug
> report about this in kmod. I'm open to people chiming in, claiming
> otherwise.
How about introducing --force switch or something like that to alter the
behavior in runtime?
For instance, the default is to fail, but with --force is to omit looped
modules.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 18:50 UTC|newest]
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2014-05-09 18:14 [PATCH] depmod: Make dependency loops be fatal Lucas De Marchi
[not found] ` <CAJs94EbuDx4Wj4HEMjepc1s8a5oWKBp6Q1DOU53GuFx9RExCDg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-09 18:45 ` Lucas De Marchi
2014-05-09 18:50 ` Matwey V. Kornilov [this message]
2014-05-15 3:02 ` Lucas De Marchi
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