From 7cb14ba75d57910cc4b62115dd5db7bd83c93684 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Robinson Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:33:19 +0930 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- include/linux/module.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.20.1