From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756096AbXLHIEU (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:04:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752924AbXLHIEL (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:04:11 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45549 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752405AbXLHIEJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:04:09 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jon Masters Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:03:57 -0500 Organization: World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Message-ID: <1197100997.20786.156.camel@perihelion> References: <47555AF1.8090304@gmail.com> <47555C64.8070607@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: boston.jonmasters.org In-Reply-To: <47555C64.8070607@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 (2.12.0-3.fc8) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:55 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Kbuild now generates and installs modules.order along with modules. > This patch updates depmod such that it sorts module list according to > the file before generating output files. Modules which aren't on > modules.order are put after modules which are ordered by > modules.order. Thanks. Please CC me in general on these patches :-) I was planning to also discuss ordering of module aliases entries, since we can have several modules providing the same modalias (this gets even worse on "Enterprise Linux" distributions, where we might have third party modules providing additional aliases). I guess this ordering is probably better than just a numeric sort, which was the original idea. Jon.