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authorTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>2007-12-07 21:04:30 +0900
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2008-01-28 23:14:35 +0100
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kbuild: implement modules.order
When multiple built-in modules (especially drivers) provide the same capability, they're prioritized by link order specified by the order listed in Makefile. This implicit ordering is lost for loadable modules. When driver modules are loaded by udev, what comes first in modules.alias file is selected. However, the order in this file is indeterministic (depends on filesystem listing order of installed modules). This causes confusion. The solution is two-parted. This patch updates kbuild such that it generates and installs modules.order which contains the name of modules ordered according to Makefile. The second part is update to depmod such that it generates output files according to this file. Note that both obj-y and obj-m subdirs can contain modules and ordering information between those two are lost from beginning. Currently obj-y subdirs are put before obj-m subdirs. Sam Ravnborg cleaned up Makefile modifications and suggested using awk to remove duplicate lines from modules.order instead of using separate C program. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/Makefile.build')
-rw-r--r--scripts/Makefile.build17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index de9836eee8bb..db38ef465a63 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -83,10 +83,12 @@ ifneq ($(strip $(obj-y) $(obj-m) $(obj-n) $(obj-) $(lib-target)),)
builtin-target := $(obj)/built-in.o
endif
+modorder-target := $(obj)/modules.order
+
# We keep a list of all modules in $(MODVERDIR)
__build: $(if $(KBUILD_BUILTIN),$(builtin-target) $(lib-target) $(extra-y)) \
- $(if $(KBUILD_MODULES),$(obj-m)) \
+ $(if $(KBUILD_MODULES),$(obj-m) $(modorder-target)) \
$(subdir-ym) $(always)
@:
@@ -276,6 +278,19 @@ targets += $(builtin-target)
endif # builtin-target
#
+# Rule to create modules.order file
+#
+# Create commands to either record .ko file or cat modules.order from
+# a subdirectory
+modorder-cmds = \
+ $(foreach m, $(modorder), \
+ $(if $(filter %/modules.order, $m), \
+ cat $m;, echo kernel/$m;))
+
+$(modorder-target): $(subdir-ym) FORCE
+ $(Q)(cat /dev/null; $(modorder-cmds)) > $@
+
+#
# Rule to compile a set of .o files into one .a file
#
ifdef lib-target