Do I need to specify kernel modules in a particular order while using modprobe to insert them?

Question

I have a list of modules in a shell script variable, lets call it modulelist. Some of those modules are already loaded.

I am doing modprobe -a $modulelist and running into a segmentation fault, which is due to one of the modules that is being loaded.

My question is : Do I have to modify the order in which module names are specified in the variable modulelist ? I thought that the order of modules in the list would not make a difference since modprobe -a loads the modules and the modules they depend on.

Answer 1

It shouldn't matter, and it definitely shouldn't segfault.

Answer 2

not sure how much it will help you but maybe you should try to run with either --show-depends or -n -v options and see if more information help diagnose the issue

also you might want to check the depmod command which is concerned with creating dependency list