Reworked by Robert Griebl <griebl@gmx.de> to support proper
module dependancies.
diff --git a/modutils/modprobe.c b/modutils/modprobe.c
index 35feaeb..0b81142 100644
--- a/modutils/modprobe.c
+++ b/modutils/modprobe.c
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 /*
  * really dumb modprobe implementation for busybox
  * Copyright (C) 2001 Lineo, davidm@lineo.com
+ *
+ * CONFIG_MODPROBE_DEPEND stuff was added and is
+ * Copyright (C) 2002 Robert Griebl, griebl@gmx.de
+ *
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
@@ -10,10 +14,189 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <syslog.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
 #include "busybox.h"
 
 static char cmd[128];
 
+#define CONFIG_MODPROBE_DEPEND
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODPROBE_DEPEND
+
+#include <sys/utsname.h>
+
+struct dep_t {
+	char *  m_module;
+	int     m_depcnt;
+	char ** m_deparr;
+	
+	struct dep_t * m_next;
+};
+
+
+static struct dep_t *build_dep ( )
+{
+	struct utsname un;
+	FILE *f;
+	struct dep_t *first = 0;
+	struct dep_t *current = 0;
+	char buffer [4096];
+	char *filename = buffer;
+	int continuation_line = 0;
+	
+	if ( uname ( &un ))
+		return 0;
+	strcpy ( filename, "/lib/modules/" );
+	strcat ( filename, un. release );
+	strcat ( filename, "/modules.dep" );
+
+	f = fopen ( filename, "r" );
+	if ( !f )
+		return 0;
+	
+	while ( fgets ( buffer, sizeof( buffer), f )) {
+		int l = strlen ( buffer );
+		char *p = 0;
+		
+		if ( buffer [l-1] == '\n' ) {
+			buffer [l-1] = 0;
+			l--;
+		}
+		
+		if ( l == 0 ) {
+			continuation_line = 0;
+			continue;
+		}
+		
+		if ( !continuation_line ) {		
+			char *col = strchr ( buffer, ':' );
+		
+			if ( col ) {
+				char *mods;
+				char *mod;
+				
+				*col = 0;
+				mods = strrchr ( buffer, '/' );
+				
+				if ( !mods )
+					mods = buffer;
+				else
+					mods++;
+					
+				mod = (char *) malloc ( col - mods + 1 );	
+				strncpy ( mod, mods, col - mods );
+				mod [col - mods] = 0;
+
+				if ( !current ) {
+					first = current = (struct dep_t *) malloc ( sizeof ( struct dep_t ));
+				}
+				else {
+					current-> m_next = (struct dep_t *) malloc ( sizeof ( struct dep_t ));
+					current = current-> m_next;
+				}
+				current-> m_module = mod;
+				current-> m_depcnt = 0;
+				current-> m_deparr = 0;
+				current-> m_next = 0;
+						
+				/* printf ( "%s:\n", mod );	 */
+						
+				p = col + 1;		
+			}
+			else
+				p = 0;
+		}
+		else
+			p = buffer;
+			
+		if ( p && *p ) {
+			char *end = &buffer [l-1];
+			char *deps = strrchr ( end, '/' );
+			char *dep;
+			
+			while ( isblank ( *end ) || ( *end == '\\' ))
+				end--;
+				
+			deps = strrchr ( p, '/' );
+			
+			if ( !deps || ( deps < p )) {
+				deps = p;
+		
+				while ( isblank ( *deps ))
+					deps++;
+			}
+			else
+				deps++;
+			
+			dep = (char *) malloc ( end - deps + 2 );
+			strncpy ( dep, deps, end - deps + 1 );
+			dep [end - deps + 1] = 0;
+			
+			current-> m_depcnt++;
+			current-> m_deparr = (char **) realloc ( current-> m_deparr, sizeof ( char *) * current-> m_depcnt );
+			current-> m_deparr [current-> m_depcnt - 1] = dep;		
+			
+			/* printf ( "    %d) %s\n", current-> m_depcnt, current-> m_deparr [current-> m_depcnt -1] ); */
+		}
+	
+		if ( buffer [l-1] == '\\' )
+			continuation_line = 1;
+		else
+			continuation_line = 0;
+	}
+	fclose ( f );
+	
+	return first;
+}
+
+
+static struct dep_t *find_dep ( struct dep_t *dt, char *mod )
+{
+	int lm = strlen ( mod );
+	int hasext = 0;
+	
+	if (( mod [lm-2] == '.' ) && ( mod [lm-1] == 'o' ))
+		hasext = 1;
+	
+	while ( dt ) {
+		if ( hasext && !strcmp ( dt-> m_module, mod ))
+			break;
+		else if ( !hasext && !strncmp ( dt-> m_module, mod, strlen ( dt-> m_module ) - 2 ))
+			break;
+			
+		dt = dt-> m_next;
+	}
+	return dt;
+}
+
+
+static void check_dep ( char *mod, int loadit )
+{
+	static struct dep_t *depend = (struct dep_t *) -1;	
+	struct dep_t *dt;
+	
+	if ( depend == (struct dep_t *) -1 )
+		depend = build_dep ( );
+	
+	/* printf ( "CHECK: %s (%p)\n", mod, depend ); */
+	
+	if (( dt = find_dep ( depend, mod ))) {
+		int i;
+			
+		for ( i = 0; i < dt-> m_depcnt; i++ ) 
+			check_dep ( dt-> m_deparr [i], 1 );
+	}
+	if ( loadit ) {
+		char lcmd [128];
+		
+		sprintf ( lcmd, "insmod -k %s 2>/dev/null", mod );
+		system ( lcmd );	
+	}
+}	
+
+#endif
+		
+
 extern int modprobe_main(int argc, char** argv)
 {
 	int	ch, rc = 0;
@@ -101,6 +284,11 @@
 			do_syslog ? "-s" : "",
 			quiet ? "-q" : "",
 			autoclean ? "-k" : "");
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODPROBE_DEPEND
+	check_dep ( argv [optind], 0 );
+#endif
+
 	while (optind < argc) {
 		strcat(cmd, " ");
 		strcat(cmd, argv[optind]);