On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 12:51 +0300, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
> On 2015-09-17 at 23:51 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > The proper way to put extra dependencies in modules is:
> >
> > /* Soft module dependencies. See man modprobe.d for details.
> > * Example: MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: module-foo module-bar post: module
> > -baz")
> > */
> > #define MODULE_SOFTDEP(_softdep) MODULE_INFO(softdep, _softdep)
> >
> > However initramfs-tools still needs to be fixed to follow these
> > dependencies.
> >
> > Ben.
> >
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> yeah, I've considered softdeps, but at least in arch linux the
> mkinitcpio tool doesn't look at softdeps at all.
>
> So, there is no way to append something to the "depends" field in the
> module info (i. e. "hard" dependencies). Correct?
Right, the hard dependencies are calculated by depmod based on symbol
usage.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent
in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949
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