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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:13:42 +0100
From: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To: "Tejun Heo" <htejun@...il.com>
Cc: "Jon Masters" <jonathan@...masters.org>,
"Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, notting@...hat.com,
"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order, take #2
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:25, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.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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