From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey.kornilov@gmail.com>,
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri@gmail.com>,
linux-modules <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix recursion loop in mod_count_all_dependencies()
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 19:41:33 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppjsbkmi.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKi4VAL4+nErBqO+z-LJCYxuMqEHmsv0272ju6xQQ2W9ra3+wg@mail.gmail.com>
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>> Note that in the case where two modules could satisfy a dependencies,
>> it may not be a real loop?
>
> What do you mean here? How could that be the case for *depmod*?
Sorry, it's a theoretical case; no one does anything this crazy:
A provides symbol S1.
B provides symbol S1, needs S2.
C needs S1, provides S2.
D provides S2.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-05 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-11 19:31 [PATCH] Fix recursion loop in mod_count_all_dependencies() matwey.kornilov
2014-04-25 3:46 ` Lucas De Marchi
2014-04-27 15:30 ` Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
2014-04-27 19:44 ` Matwey V. Kornilov
2014-05-02 14:13 ` Lucas De Marchi
2014-05-02 14:29 ` Matwey V. Kornilov
2014-05-05 1:45 ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-05 4:29 ` Lucas De Marchi
2014-05-05 10:11 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2014-05-05 10:16 ` Matwey V. Kornilov
2014-05-05 12:44 ` Lucas De Marchi
2014-05-05 12:37 ` Lucas De Marchi
[not found] ` <CAKi4VA+R6TBbgVv1yAjKi0cU=Q+X8zFDQQ0e3hNiQ5meDhsiEg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-27 20:04 ` Lucas De Marchi
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