On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 03:03 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:55 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > Kbuild now generates and installs modules.order along with modules. > > This patch updates depmod such that it sorts module list according to > > the file before generating output files. Modules which aren't on > > modules.order are put after modules which are ordered by > > modules.order. > > Thanks. Please CC me in general on these patches :-) > > I was planning to also discuss ordering of module aliases entries, since > we can have several modules providing the same modalias (this gets even > worse on "Enterprise Linux" distributions, where we might have third > party modules providing additional aliases). I guess this ordering is > probably better than just a numeric sort, which was the original idea.
Actually, this still won't quite solve that problem, because modules not installed in the kernel itself won't have ordering data supplied. Maybe I need to do this, *and* then sort modaliases numerically aswell. Jon. -- 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/
