Commit 78286cdf authored by Lucas De Marchi's avatar Lucas De Marchi Committed by Linus Torvalds

Documentation: replace install commands with softdeps

Install commands should not be used to specify soft dependencies among
modules. When loading modules it's much better to have a softdep that
modprobe knows what's being done than having to fork/exec another
instance of modprobe to load the other module.

By using a softdep user has also an option to remove the dependencies
when removing the module (and if its refcount dropped to 0)
Signed-off-by: default avatarLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 970e2486
......@@ -1822,8 +1822,7 @@ modules.conf manual page.
In this case, the following can be added to config files in
/etc/modprobe.d/ as:
install bonding /sbin/modprobe tg3; /sbin/modprobe e1000;
/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install bonding
softdep bonding pre: tg3 e1000
This will load tg3 and e1000 modules before loading the bonding one.
Full documentation on this can be found in the modprobe.d and modprobe
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......@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ Loading MSS and OPL3 needs to pre load the aedsp16 module to set up correctly
the sound card. Installation dependencies must be written in configuration
files under /etc/modprobe.d/ directory:
install ad1848 /sbin/modprobe aedsp16 && /sbin/modprobe -i ad1848
install opl3 /sbin/modprobe aedsp16 && /sbin/modprobe -i opl3
softdep ad1848 pre: aedsp16
softdep opl3 pre: aedsp16
Then you must load the sound modules stack in this order:
sound -> aedsp16 -> [ ad1848, opl3 ]
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......@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM synthesizer
Alternatively, if you have compiled in kernel level ISAPnP support:
alias char-major-14 sb
post-install sb /sbin/modprobe "-k" "adlib_card"
softdep sb post: adlib_card
options adlib_card io=0x388
The effect of this is that the sound driver and all necessary bits and
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