Add support to install the modules.order file for external modules during module_install in order to retain the Makefile ordering of external modules. This helps reduce the extra steps necessary to properly order loading of external modules when there are multiple kernel modules compiled within a given KBUILD_EXTMOD directory. To handle compiling multiple external modules within the same INSTALL_MOD_DIR, kbuild will append a suffix to the installed modules.order file defined like so: echo ${KBUILD_EXTMOD} | sed 's:[./_]:_:g' Ex: KBUILD_EXTMOD=/mnt/a.b/c-d/my_driver results in: modules.order._mnt_a_b_c_d_my_driver The installed module.order.$(extmod_suffix) files can then be cat'd together to create a single modules.order file which would define the order to load all of the modules during boot. Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/Makefile.modinst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modinst b/scripts/Makefile.modinst index ff9b09e4cfca..2e2e31696fd6 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.modinst +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modinst @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ suffix-$(CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ) := .xz suffix-$(CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD) := .zst modules := $(patsubst $(extmod_prefix)%, $(dst)/%$(suffix-y), $(modules)) +ifneq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),) +extmod_suffix := $(subst /,_,$(subst .,_,$(subst -,_,$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)))) +modules += $(dst)/modules.order.$(extmod_suffix) +endif __modinst: $(modules) @: @@ -82,6 +86,12 @@ $(dst)/%.ko: $(extmod_prefix)%.ko FORCE $(call cmd,strip) $(call cmd,sign) +ifneq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),) +$(dst)/modules.order.$(extmod_suffix): $(MODORDER) FORCE + $(call cmd,install) + @sed -i "s:^$(KBUILD_EXTMOD):$(INSTALL_MOD_DIR):g" $@ +endif + else $(dst)/%.ko: FORCE -- 2.34.1.173.g76aa8bc2d0-goog