Re: [module-init-tools] fix weak symbol handling

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:32:09 +0000

rusty@rustcorp.com.au said:
> If A depends on B, then modprobe will give a warning if "modprobe A"
> fails to load B for some reason. If B doesn't exist, then modprobe
> wouldn't know anything about it (presumably).

A warning is fine. If A _weakly_ depends on B, a failure to load A even
though B decided when asked that it didn't really want to initialise itself
is not fine :)

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dwmw2




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