Re: [PATCH 2/2] modprobe: handle built-in modules

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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Alan Jenkins
<sourcejedi.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If the above issues are fixed, builtin modules should end up being
> treated as close as possible to loadable modules, and I will be very
> happy :-).
>
> I thought the "builtin" message was inconsistent at first, because
> "modprobe -v $module" is currently silent if $module is already
> loaded.  But I see it is useful because "lsmod" won't work for builtin
> modules.

Perhaps we could extend lsmod to list the builtins, adding a (builtin)
qualifier to the Used By column,
eg:

Module                  Size  Used by
[...]
usbcore            -      (builtin)
[...]

Ok, it's trivial to cat modules.builtin but an end user might only
know about lsmod.
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