Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:03:29 +1000 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies |
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes: > > Hi Rusty: > > > > I don't know why this patch never went into the kernel, even > > though the corresponding features have been added to modprobe > > in most if not all distros. > > Because Andreas never sent me the patch? This is the first I've *heard* > of this feature. Looks like it didn't hit lkml either. And what was > 2/2?
2/2 was the patch to actually use this in crc32c.
> It's not how I would have done this: post-deps are more flexibly done at > runtime, because the module may have to do work to figure out what to > pull in. But since it already exists, I'll apply this patch: it doesn't > cost the kernel anything. > > And I've fixed the example, so we know how to list multiple modules!
Thanks! -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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