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| author | Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-11 20:56:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-01-11 20:56:03 +0000 |
| commit | 6821b225573f069826e092e88cfc7090989f09ae (patch) | |
| tree | 8a4d1dbc94c0cc18b9cca295c961da4dbb9679a5 /share | |
| parent | 2d82ac311025b5b76c1973d61d653f620bb17208 (diff) | |
| download | src-6821b225573f069826e092e88cfc7090989f09ae.tar.gz src-6821b225573f069826e092e88cfc7090989f09ae.zip | |
Document that MODULE_DEPEND does not change runtime initialization
order.
Mostly submitted by: scottl
Discussed on: cvs-src/src-committers
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=140082
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/MODULE_DEPEND.9 | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/MODULE_DEPEND.9 b/share/man/man9/MODULE_DEPEND.9 index 753c653aa2d8..c0a8fdd44c94 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/MODULE_DEPEND.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/MODULE_DEPEND.9 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 7, 2005 +.Dd January 11, 2005 .Dt MODULE_DEPEND 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ which has registered its version with .Fn MODULE_VERSION . .Pp +The +.Fn MODULE_DEPEND +macro provides hints to the kernel +.Xr loader 8 +and to the kernel linker to ensure that the named dependency is loaded +prior to the existing module. +It does not change or dictate the order in which modules are +initialized at runtime. +.Pp Three versions must be specified for .Fa moddepend : .Bl -tag -width ".Fa prefversion" |