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Subject: Re: Kernel device load order/dependency
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On Thursday 22 December 2005 05:30 pm, Joao Barros wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I make a pseudo device load before another device or even
> better make one depend on the load of another.
> I'm importing the raid management framework from OpenBSD and the
> driver is loading/unloading fine but I need it to load before amr and
> ciss.

Use MODULE_DEPEND to have the drivers depend on your module.

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