09.05.2014 22:45, Lucas De Marchi пишет: >> Do I understand you correctly that your patch fails to create modules.dep > > I'd say it avoids losing the previous, valid modules.dep. When building an RPM package, we don't have the previous one. > This is what I'm arguing for... dependency loops are bugs in kernel > modules that should rather be fixed instead of papering over. > > Btw, I don't think they are that common since we never received a bug > report about this in kmod. I'm open to people chiming in, claiming > otherwise. How about introducing --force switch or something like that to alter the behavior in runtime? For instance, the default is to fail, but with --force is to omit looped modules. -- 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
