At 11:35 AM 8/7/00 -0400, Chuck Gelm wrote:
..
>A thought to the module programmers:
>I wonder why, if ne.o needs 8390.o, it doesn't just
>go do it its own self!
Modules don't know anything about installing other modules (if that's what
you mean by "just go do it"). Many different NICs use the 8390 chipset, so
pulling this functionality out into a separate module does make sense. ne.o
is hardly unique in this approach.
The "modprobe" application takes care of catching this sort of dependency.
IT works with a list generated by the application "depmod". You should use
it instead of "insmod".
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