Does anyone know why modprobe isn't used for loading modules?
modprobe (the normal Linux way) would handle such kernel module dependencies so that you wouldn't have to worry about loading mbcache.ko before ext2.ko etc. modprobe currently just says 'could not parse modules.dep', could it be that the kernel builders haven't done 'depmod -a' or similar? Maybe some of you who have actually (re-)built the kernel are up to date on this?