Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-09-18 Thread Rusty Russell
Lucas De Marchi writes: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: >> Lucas De Marchi writes: >>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Rusty Russell >>> wrote: I'm happy to change this macro to create a modinfo line like "softdep:" >>> >>> how is that solving the issue that

Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-09-17 Thread Lucas De Marchi
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: > Lucas De Marchi writes: >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: >>> Lucas De Marchi writes: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrot

Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-09-17 Thread Rusty Russell
Lucas De Marchi writes: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: >> Lucas De Marchi writes: >>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Herbert Xu >>> wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > Herbert Xu writes: > > Hi Rusty: > > > >

Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-09-17 Thread Lucas De Marchi
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: > Lucas De Marchi writes: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Herbert Xu >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: Herbert Xu writes: > Hi Rusty: > > I don't know why this patch never w

Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-09-12 Thread Rusty Russell
Lucas De Marchi writes: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Herbert Xu > wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: >>> Herbert Xu writes: >>> > Hi Rusty: >>> > >>> > I don't know why this patch never went into the kernel, even >>> > though the corresponding feature

Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-09-10 Thread Herbert Xu
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 pr

Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-09-10 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Herbert Xu > wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: >>> Herbert Xu writes: >>> > Hi Rusty: >>> > >>> > I don't know why this patch never went into the kernel, even >>> >

Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-09-10 Thread Lucas De Marchi
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: >> Herbert Xu writes: >> > Hi Rusty: >> > >> > I don't know why this patch never went into the kernel, even >> > though the corresponding features have been added to modprobe >> >

Re: [PATCH] modules: add support for soft module dependencies

2013-07-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > Herbert Xu writes: > > Hi Rusty: > > > > I don't know why this patch never went into the kernel, even > > though the corresponding features have been added to modprobe > > in most if not all distros. > > Because Andreas never sent m