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From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2005.01.10 13:28:17 -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
>=20
> >On 2005.01.10 10:41:39 -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >
> >>So, to everone, MODULE_DEPEND only marks which modules are required
> >>for this module to work, it does not infulence startup ordering at
> >>all...
> >
> >So, should I commit this patch?
> >
[...]
> >@@ -69,3 +69,7 @@
> > .An -nosplit
> > This manual page was written by
> > .An Alexander Langer Aq alex@FreeBSD.org .
> >+.Sh BUGS
> >+.Nm
> >+only marks which modules are required for the module to work, it does
> >+not influence start-up ordering.
>=20
> It also is used by the loader and by kldload to load the dependent=20
> modules.  So it's more than just an informational tag, it actually does
> get used by the system.

I don't think the above says it's only informational, but I'm sure the
wording could be improved.  Perhpaps somebody has a suggestion for
better describing the issue?

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Simon L. Nielsen

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