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Commit 7cb14ba7 authored by Andreas Robinson's avatar Andreas Robinson Committed by Rusty Russell
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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: default avatarAndreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
parent 4d10c223

include/linux/module.h

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@@ -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