Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2003 07:54:03 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: Loading a module multtiple times |
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> No, it's a 2.5 thing: modules know their own name. This is because > (1) the names are used to set new-style boot parameters, (2) needing > to insert two modules is usually wrong, since how would that work if > the module was built-in? > > It also opens us up to the possibility of a list of built-in modules, > if we wanted to.
The list of built-ins would be really, really nice -- it would beat the heck out of digging through the .config and/or going back to the build machine and doing 'make menuconfig' just to see what's in there.
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