In the last episode (Feb 20), Cliff Sarginson said:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:58:09PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Feb 19), Cliff Sarginson said:
> > > Hello,
> > > Someone suggested this may be the right list for this.
> > >
> > > - Has consideration in the loadable modules implementation been given
> > > to a module dependency facility, in the manner of "depmod" in Linux ?
> > > So that any module loaded will automagically load modules it depends
> > > on to run ?
> >
> > See the module(9) and MODULE_DEPEND(9) manpages.
> >
> Ok, well the facility exists I see.
> Is it used ?
Yes.
$ cd /sys
$ grep MODULE_DEPEND **/*.c | wc -l
137
$
NIC drivers sometimes require miibus, USB drivers require usb, SCSI
card drivers require cam, etc.
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