On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 21:23 +0100, Michal Marek wrote: > good example how additional dependencies in the .modinfo section could > help: https://bugzilla.novell.com/552443 > libcrc32c.ko loads crc32c.ko via request_module(), but modprobe > --show-depends won't tell you that in advance. Yeah. Softdeps are certainly going to be useful for that and many other things - a common example is pulling in ioctl-control style modules that are optional (no symbol deps) but needed by management software. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
