On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 18:52:28 +0530, Amith wrote:
> hi ,
> but the question still remains - how does THIS_MODULE convert
> itself into the struct module * of the module where
> it is declared ? .
It seems to be a magic symbol, that is treated specialy by the module
loader. (Cf. /proc/ksyms, nm <any-module> and the comment in
linux/module.h). You'll have to read the source, if you want the exact
details -- the interesting function is called sys_init_module.
> #define THIS_MODULE (&__this_module). /* from
> <linux/module.h> */
>
>
>
> int init_module (void)
> {
> struct module *mine = THIS_MODULE ;
> ......
> }
>
> could someone explain ?
>
> cheers,
> Amith
>
>
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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