On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 23:26 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > 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. > Agree, this helps us support both distro kernels with some built-ins and modular kernels. Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@xxxxxxxxxx
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