modprobe broken with recursive deps

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009 08:44:39 Timo Teräs wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > doing `modprobe` on any module that only has a dependency list <=1 level
> > deep works fine.  as soon as i try to modprobe anything deeper, modprobe
> > fails to act recursively.  so lets look at the case of `modprobe snd-pcm`
>
> This was intentional. It speeds up loading time and reduces memory
> requirements considerably.
>
> The proper thing is to have modules.dep to contain full dependency list on
> it for each module. The depmod should generate a file like that (if it
> doesn't it's a depmod bug). I think module-init-tools depmod does the same.

busybox should mirror whatever module-init-tools is doing.  if it isnt, then 
it's a bug in busybox, or it should be an optional config option.

the m-i-t man files arent terribly clear here and my modules.dep isnt deep ... 
will have to read the code to check

> Or did you generate modules.dep with something else?

i'm using the depmod.pl part of busybox, so there's a bug in busybox somewhere 
here
-mike
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