Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:13:42 +0100 | From | "Kay Sievers" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order, take #2 |
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:25, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote: > Jon Masters wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:36 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >> >>> Jon, this patch hasn't made into module-init-tools >> >> I'm redoing it to cope with the binary sorted output files we have now - >> i.e. we can't just rely upon the order of modules.dep any more, what >> you're actually trying to do with modules.order is ensure that e.g. >> modules providing conflicting aliases get handled in "order". > > Yes, that's right. Ah... so, now modules.dep is sorted to speed up > module look up?
It's a match tree, stored in a binary file format, not a specific ordering.
> Is this code already in module-init-tools?
http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.git;a=summary
Kay
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