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

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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Alan Jenkins
<sourcejedi.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/10/09, Andreas Robinson <andr345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 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?".

Alright, patch forthcoming.
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