[Bug 627] modprobe-small: incorrect alias-based probe with dep_bb_fd < 0

Wed Sep 30 10:35:19 UTC 2009

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=627

--- Comment #15 from Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>  2009-09-30 10:35:19 UTC ---
> Now the interesting stuff - modprobe seems to load everything that matches the
> alias. Both ata_generic and ata_piix gets loaded, regardless of line order in
> any of those files.

Is the *order* in which they are insmod'ed matches modules.alias order?

I guess if ata_generic is insmod'ed first, it will "take" the device, and later
ata_piix will just hang around, with no devices to handle.

This may be a satisfactory outcome, though... would it be satisfactory for you?

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