From: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org>, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] config: also parse softdeps from modules
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:18:54 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140401111854.GK1123@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396271931-7431-2-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz>
Hi Michal and Tom.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 03:18:51PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> From: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
>
> This information can be found in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.softdep, and
> has only recently been exported by the kernel.
>
> Also remove the advice about copying modules.softdep to /lib/modules as it is
> not clear how to do this correctly with several kernels installed with
> potentially conflicting soft dependencies.
> ---
I think in most of the cases using a softdep from the kernel is wrong,
since there are other better ways to do it. But there are some it's
indeed difficult to avoid... crct10dif is one of them.
Applied.
--
Lucas De Marchi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-01 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-31 13:18 [PATCH 1/2] libkmod: Ignore errors from softdeps Michal Marek
2014-03-31 13:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] config: also parse softdeps from modules Michal Marek
2014-04-01 11:18 ` Lucas De Marchi [this message]
2014-04-02 8:44 ` Tom Gundersen
2014-04-01 11:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] libkmod: Ignore errors from softdeps Lucas De Marchi
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