From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F28CD98C7 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 06:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1345462AbjJKGjP (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2023 02:39:15 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37612 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1344555AbjJKGjN (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2023 02:39:13 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 333FC93; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:39:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=8g0oB6PqYhngbYuG23JzqWL+yNnX6VYd4fp4Ba0ALOs=; b=2YJhSVXBo8Hk70GbN+zRFplRIN zGM21InwXmWArCXhd6WswAcoReAVxVvlwJ7NXF30XHrAB5aCuveXrDfLq+O2AGQFjTQ60EI1QfkfE CPpx0B01ZeFlN8KrRpdwEQwYij4VBUBqTbIMUYdeecVOzsjhwh/BtZoFEWVYtKP06IrysbHoGl7H+ UBvMIdGfh9rBuoCMmlkBeUsyyb1aLycio61slxZ955ihO1btEUu3H2ptWM6vKEUk5/KAHS1oV+CX6 +24loTi0LvEsEdfbylvD6JbacvJVOwS4k7X7HXUqgaUCzPhy7E+hy/asm2/k0HC0cXefZKQ368Iqc kKqpk4qg==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qqSsC-00F07T-06; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 06:39:12 +0000 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:39:12 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Joey Jiao Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, Luis Chamberlain , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: Add CONFIG_MODULE_LOAD_IN_SEQUENCE option Message-ID: References: <20231009045636.4143-1-quic_jiangenj@quicinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20231009045636.4143-1-quic_jiangenj@quicinc.com> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 10:26:35AM +0530, Joey Jiao wrote: > When modprobe cmds are executed one by one, the final loaded modules > are not in fixed sequence as expected. And why does this matter? If this is important enough to matter it should just be the default, and have really good reason for that. Doing something like this as a config option does not make any sense.