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authorLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>2012-03-30 13:37:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-30 16:03:15 -0700
commit78286cdf054212c6d2fe6524fbf673fb9ead1abe (patch)
tree6eee7972b83cfb77b9efab23f32fecbdb7695b6d /Documentation/sound/oss/README.modules
parent970e2486492aa1eb47a436a5a4c81e92558986a9 (diff)
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: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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