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>
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Andreas Robinson 2013-08-20 15:33:19 +09:30 committed by Rusty Russell
parent 4d10c223ba
commit 7cb14ba75d

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@ -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