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| author | Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> | 2012-03-30 13:37:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -0700 |
| commit | 78286cdf054212c6d2fe6524fbf673fb9ead1abe (patch) | |
| tree | 6eee7972b83cfb77b9efab23f32fecbdb7695b6d /Documentation | |
| parent | 970e2486492aa1eb47a436a5a4c81e92558986a9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-78286cdf054212c6d2fe6524fbf673fb9ead1abe.tar.gz lwn-78286cdf054212c6d2fe6524fbf673fb9ead1abe.zip | |
Documentation: replace install commands with softdeps
Install commands should not be used to specify soft dependencies among
modules. When loading modules it's much better to have a softdep that
modprobe knows what's being done than having to fork/exec another
instance of modprobe to load the other module.
By using a softdep user has also an option to remove the dependencies
when removing the module (and if its refcount dropped to 0)
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/oss/AudioExcelDSP16 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/oss/README.modules | 2 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index d5e869814040..bfea8a338901 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -1822,8 +1822,7 @@ modules.conf manual page. In this case, the following can be added to config files in /etc/modprobe.d/ as: -install bonding /sbin/modprobe tg3; /sbin/modprobe e1000; - /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install bonding +softdep bonding pre: tg3 e1000 This will load tg3 and e1000 modules before loading the bonding one. Full documentation on this can be found in the modprobe.d and modprobe diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/AudioExcelDSP16 b/Documentation/sound/oss/AudioExcelDSP16 index e863f9cd5941..ea8549faede9 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/AudioExcelDSP16 +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/AudioExcelDSP16 @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ Loading MSS and OPL3 needs to pre load the aedsp16 module to set up correctly the sound card. Installation dependencies must be written in configuration files under /etc/modprobe.d/ directory: -install ad1848 /sbin/modprobe aedsp16 && /sbin/modprobe -i ad1848 -install opl3 /sbin/modprobe aedsp16 && /sbin/modprobe -i opl3 +softdep ad1848 pre: aedsp16 +softdep opl3 pre: aedsp16 Then you must load the sound modules stack in this order: sound -> aedsp16 -> [ ad1848, opl3 ] diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/README.modules b/Documentation/sound/oss/README.modules index bf5142a7be79..cdc039421a46 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/README.modules +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/README.modules @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM synthesizer Alternatively, if you have compiled in kernel level ISAPnP support: alias char-major-14 sb -post-install sb /sbin/modprobe "-k" "adlib_card" +softdep sb post: adlib_card options adlib_card io=0x388 The effect of this is that the sound driver and all necessary bits and |