NAME
MODULE_DEPEND —
set kernel module
dependencies
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/param.h>
#include <sys/module.h>
MODULE_DEPEND(name,
moddepend,
int minversion,
int prefversion,
int maxversion);
DESCRIPTION
TheMODULE_DEPEND()
macro sets a dependency on another kernel module with name
moddepend, which has registered its version with
MODULE_VERSION().
The
MODULE_DEPEND()
macro provides hints to the kernel
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.
Three versions must be specified for moddepend:
- minversion
- The minimum version on which the current module can depend.
- maxversion
- The maximum version on which the current module can depend.
- prefversion
- The preferred version on which the current module can depend.
EXAMPLES
MODULE_DEPEND(foo, bar, 1, 3, 4);
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Alexander Langer <alex@FreeBSD.org>.