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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 5 months ago

So the gist of is_module() would be that it would have different semantics than IS_MODULE(): it could be used to e.g. check modules in a loop.

Compilation would generate a new ELF section with following entries:

<ASCIIZ string><0 or 1>

The string would contain module name.

Also, it would enabled to add lsmod -b to enumerate built-in modules, which give nice way to carve up more information about a running test kernel. This would obviously need perhaps a new file to procfs for built-in modules (for regular there is /proc/modules).

I guess recent crypto bug can be sorted otherwise but this feels useful enough to document it.

#linux #kernel #kmod #module

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