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

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On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Lucas De Marchi
<lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks to both. I had forgotten about this.

Cheers,

Tom
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