Re: [PATCH 2/2] config: also parse softdeps from modules

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Hi Michal and Tom.


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 03:18:51PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> From: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
> 
> 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.
> ---

I think in most of the cases using a softdep from the kernel is wrong,
since there are other better ways to do it. But there are some it's
indeed difficult to avoid... crct10dif is one of them.

Applied.

-- 
Lucas De Marchi
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