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authorAndreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com>2013-08-01 10:55:34 +1000
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2013-08-01 10:55:34 +1000
commit674349f365ce7ac2b826edc619907a19c7136822 (patch)
treebeecbcc50bcec5a5dd01d134329bd241bc68f95b /include
parent7a7e4b73b5e3244063c224c307b1b4b8a0110d6d (diff)
downloadlinux-674349f365ce7ac2b826edc619907a19c7136822.tar.bz2
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>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/module.h5
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