From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.sysgo.com ([176.9.26.183]:51171 "EHLO mail1.sysgo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750799AbaBZIZ5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 03:25:57 -0500 From: Andrej Krutak To: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org Subject: modprobe documentation discrepancy (modules.dep support) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:18:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1627264.ihO3vEG55s@kru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-modules-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, the modprobe documentation states that: %<-------- modprobe expects an up-to-date modules.dep.bin file (or fallback human readable modules.dep file) %<-------- but in reality no fallback happens in the current code. module-init-tools did the fallback, so I suppose this is a leftover from the previous documentation. I guess the simplest thing to do would be removing the documentation. On the other hand the depmod.pl script (from ltib.org) doesn't create the binary file, so not supporting "legacy" modules.dep breaks some stuff... -- Best regards | S pozdravom | Mit freundlichen Gr��en | Cordialement Andrej Krutak SYSGO