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| author | Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com> | 2013-08-01 02:55:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2013-08-01 02:55:34 +0200 |
| commit | 674349f365ce7ac2b826edc619907a19c7136822 (patch) | |
| tree | beecbcc50bcec5a5dd01d134329bd241bc68f95b | |
| parent | crypto: omap-sham - Convert to devm_kzalloc() (diff) | |
| download | linux-674349f365ce7ac2b826edc619907a19c7136822.tar.xz linux-674349f365ce7ac2b826edc619907a19c7136822.zip | |
modules: add support for soft module dependencies
Additional and optional dependencies not found while building the kernel and
modules, can now be declared explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/module.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index 46f1ea01e6f6..504035f3ece1 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ extern const struct gtype##_id __mod_##gtype##_table \ /* For userspace: you can also call me... */ #define MODULE_ALIAS(_alias) MODULE_INFO(alias, _alias) +/* Soft module dependencies. See man modprobe.d for details. + * Example: MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: module-foo module-bar post: module-baz") + */ +#define MODULE_SOFTDEP(_softdep) MODULE_INFO(softdep, _softdep) + /* * The following license idents are currently accepted as indicating free * software modules |