On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:04:30PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > When multiple built-in modules (especially drivers) provide the same > capability, they're prioritized by link order specified by the order > listed in Makefile. This implicit ordering is lost for loadable > modules. > > When driver modules are loaded by udev, what comes first in > modules.alias file is selected. However, the order in this file is > indeterministic (depends on filesystem listing order of installed > modules). This causes confusion. > > The solution is two-parted. This patch updates kbuild such that it > generates and installs modules.order which contains the name of > modules ordered according to Makefile. The second part is update to > depmod such that it generates output files according to this file. > > Note that both obj-y and obj-m subdirs can contain modules and > ordering information between those two are lost from beginning. > Currently obj-y subdirs are put before obj-m subdirs. > > Sam Ravnborg cleaned up Makefile modifications and suggested using awk > to remove duplicate lines from modules.order instead of using separate > C program. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied to kbuild.git. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/