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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Subject: Re: modprobe + request_module() deadlock
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:10:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hpt2aayco.wl@alsa2.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cnjr8v$dcu$1@sea.gmane.org>

At Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:04:16 +0500,
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > Can we add a module dependency manually somehow?
> 
> Yes, recommend the user to add something like this to /etc/modprobe.conf:
> 
> install a modprobe -i a ; modprobe b ; true
> 
> But IMHO Rusty should provide a way to specify those "recommended" install
> lines in the modules themselves (so that they finally go
> to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias or a similar autogenerated file),
> like that's already done wih aliases and char-majors.

Well, how about to add a new marker in the driver code such as

	MODULE_DEPENDS_ON("somemodule");

so that depmod can pick it up?


Takashi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-19 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-17 22:29 modprobe + request_module() deadlock Johannes Stezenbach
2004-11-18  3:48 ` Rusty Russell
2004-11-18 13:55   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-11-18 19:05     ` Takashi Iwai
2004-11-19  4:04       ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-11-19 11:10         ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2004-11-19 11:50           ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-19 12:42             ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-11-21  8:39             ` Rusty Russell
2004-11-22 10:25               ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-22 14:16                 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-11-22 14:44                   ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-22 15:36                     ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-11-22 16:52                       ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-24  5:02                         ` Rusty Russell
2004-11-24 12:11                           ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-25 16:03                           ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-26  0:34                             ` Rusty Russell

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