On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:02:53PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > From: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> > > When multiple built-in modules (especially drivers) provide the same > capability, they're prioritized by link order specified by the order > listed in Makefile. This implicit ordering is lost for loadable > modules. > > When driver modules are loaded by udev, what comes first in > modules.alias file is selected. However, the order in this file is > indeterministic (depends on filesystem listing order of installed > modules). This causes confusion. > > The solution is two-parted. This patch updates kbuild such that it > generates and installs modules.order which contains the name of > modules ordered according to Makefile. The second part is update to > depmod such that it generates output files according to this file. > > Note that both obj-y and obj-m subdirs can contain modules and > ordering information between those two are lost from beginning. > Currently obj-y subdirs are put before obj-m subdirs. > > Sam Ravnborg cleaned up Makefile modifications and suggested using awk > to remove duplicate lines from modules.order instead of using separate > C program. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
