Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:40:03 +1000 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies |
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:01:38AM -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > > However looking at the only user right now, crct10dif: couldn't we > detect at runtime if this module can be used instead of just trying to > load it as a pre softdep and possibly failing?
No as sd_mod requires crct10dif to be present. The use of softdep as opposed to just a symbolic dependency is due to there being two modules for crct10dif, a generic version and an arch-specific one.
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