[PATCH] Sort modules for modpost and modinst

From: Brian Gerst
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 07:46:05 EST


Process modules in sorted order during modpost and modules install.

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Brian Gerst

diff -urN linux/scripts/Makefile.modinst linux2/scripts/Makefile.modinst
--- linux/scripts/Makefile.modinst 2004-06-29 13:45:26.232647680 -0400
+++ linux2/scripts/Makefile.modinst 2004-06-29 11:36:33.191248664 -0400
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@

#

-__modules := $(shell head -q -n1 /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod))
+__modules := $(sort $(shell head -q -n1 /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod)))
modules := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko,$(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o)))

.PHONY: $(modules)
diff -urN linux/scripts/Makefile.modpost linux2/scripts/Makefile.modpost
--- linux/scripts/Makefile.modpost 2004-06-29 13:45:32.643673056 -0400
+++ linux2/scripts/Makefile.modpost 2004-06-29 10:49:20.145937016 -0400
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
symverfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers

# Step 1), find all modules listed in $(MODVERDIR)/
-__modules := $(shell head -q -n1 /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod))
+__modules := $(sort $(shell head -q -n1 /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod)))
modules := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko, $(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o)))

_modpost: $(modules)