On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 17:25, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: > To make it easier for tools like mkinitrd to detect whether a needed > module is missing or whether it is compiled into the kernel, install a > modules.builtin file listing all modules built into the kernel. This is > done by generating an alternate config file with all tristate =y options > set to =Y and reading the makefiles with this config included. The built > in modules then appear in obj-Y. That looks very useful. We like to have that for modprobe not to throw an error if a "module" is already in the kernel, because it is compiled in. Only modules with parameters show up in /sys/modules/ and they are already handled fine. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
