From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Loading a module multtiple times
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 07:54:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305010756_MC3-1-36E1-624@compuserve.com> (raw)
> No, it's a 2.5 thing: modules know their own name. This is because
> (1) the names are used to set new-style boot parameters, (2) needing
> to insert two modules is usually wrong, since how would that work if
> the module was built-in?
>
> It also opens us up to the possibility of a list of built-in modules,
> if we wanted to.
The list of built-ins would be really, really nice -- it would
beat the heck out of digging through the .config and/or going
back to the build machine and doing 'make menuconfig' just to
see what's in there.
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Chuck
next reply other threads:[~2003-05-01 11:44 UTC|newest]
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2003-05-01 11:54 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
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2003-04-30 21:59 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-30 21:05 Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-30 22:42 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-05-01 2:12 ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-01 5:10 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-01 6:22 ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-01 10:09 ` Alan Cox
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