Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alexander E. Patrakov" <> | Subject | Re: modprobe + request_module() deadlock | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:04:16 +0500 |
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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.
Also Greg KH said in the past that module autoloading (i.e. the non-empty request_module() function) should be marked as obsolete (and therefore the use of request_module() should be eliminated).
-- Alexander E. Patrakov
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