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.