Re: modprobe + request_module() deadlock

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:04:16 +0500,
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
> 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.

Well, how about to add a new marker in the driver code such as

	MODULE_DEPENDS_ON("somemodule");

so that depmod can pick it up?


Takashi
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