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

I have a list of modules in a shell script variable, lets call it modulelist. Some of those modules开发者_JS百科 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.

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

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