This information can be found in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.softdep, and
has only recently been exported by the kernel.
Also remove the advice about copying modules.softdep to /lib/modules as it is
not clear how to do this correctly with several kernels installed with
potentially conflicting soft dependencies.
---
libkmod/libkmod-config.c | 2 ++
tools/depmod.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libkmod/libkmod-config.c b/libkmod/libkmod-config.c
index 24978c1..809815a 100644
--- a/libkmod/libkmod-config.c
+++ b/libkmod/libkmod-config.c
@@ -879,6 +879,8 @@ int kmod_config_new(struct kmod_ctx *ctx, struct kmod_config **p_config,
struct kmod_list *path_list = NULL;
size_t i;
+ conf_files_insert_sorted(ctx, &list, kmod_get_dirname(ctx), "modules.softdep");
+
for (i = 0; config_paths[i] != NULL; i++) {
const char *path = config_paths[i];
unsigned long long path_stamp = 0;
diff --git a/tools/depmod.c b/tools/depmod.c
index 5855b2a..3d45c83 100644
--- a/tools/depmod.c
+++ b/tools/depmod.c
@@ -1963,8 +1963,6 @@ static int output_softdeps(struct depmod *depmod, FILE *out)
size_t i;
fputs("# Soft dependencies extracted from modules themselves.\n", out);
- fputs("# Copy, with a .conf extension, to /etc/modprobe.d to use "
- "it with modprobe.\n", out);
for (i = 0; i < depmod->modules.count; i++) {
const struct mod *mod = depmod->modules.array[i];
--
1.8.4
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