Tweak some config defaults; fix MODPROBE_SMALL ordering in "make config"
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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@@ -5,6 +5,37 @@
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menu "Linux Module Utilities"
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config MODPROBE_SMALL
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bool "Simplified modutils"
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default y
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select PLATFORM_LINUX
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help
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Simplified modutils.
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With this option modprobe does not require modules.dep file
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and does not use /etc/modules.conf file.
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It scans module files in /lib/modules/`uname -r` and
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determines dependencies and module alias names on the fly.
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This may make module loading slower, most notably
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when one needs to load module by alias (this requires
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scanning through module _bodies_).
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At the first attempt to load a module by alias modprobe
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will try to generate modules.dep.bb file in order to speed up
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future loads by alias. Failure to do so (read-only /lib/modules,
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etc) is not reported, and future modprobes will be slow too.
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NB: modules.dep.bb file format is not compatible
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with modules.dep file as created/used by standard module tools.
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Additional module parameters can be stored in
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/etc/modules/$module_name files.
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Apart from modprobe, other utilities are also provided:
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- insmod is an alias to modprobe
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- rmmod is an alias to modprobe -r
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- depmod generates modules.dep.bb
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INSERT
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comment "Options common to multiple modutils"
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