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

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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 14:11, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andreas Robinson napsal(a):
>> 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)
>> [...]
>
> My current /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.builtin is 129 lines, I'm not
> sure I want to see additional 129 lines each time I run lsmod. What
> about some 'lsmod --show-builtin' ?

Oh well, before we moved all to built-in in the kernel the list was
that long as well. I think "grep is your friend" and we should not
care and just print it. The less difference between built-in and
module the better.

Kay
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