On 9/10/09, Andreas Robinson <andr345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Yeah. I suspect it would be useful for support purposes - making it easier for people to ask "do you have X kernel driver loaded" or "which kernel drivers do you have loaded?". +1: please remove the "builtin" message from modprobe, and add builtin module support to lsmod. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
