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DateMon, 14 Jun 2010 12:04:34 -0700
SubjectRe: Testing to see if a driver is loaded
FromRobert Emanuele <>
Hi Raj,

I appreciate the thought, but if you read my email closely you'll see
that I was looking for how to find if a driver is loaded into the
kernel (module or not) from within another driver's probe function.

--Rob

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Raj singh <linux.rajsingh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
>         You can use lsmod command...
>
> login as root & type lsmod | head -10...it will show you a list of drivers
> currently loaded in your kernel....
>
>
> Raj.
>
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Robert Emanuele <rob@emanuele.us> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings once again,
>>
>> I was wondering if there is a simple way to test if a driver is loaded
>> from within another driver's probe?  I have one driver that depends on
>> another.  I see several *_find_device functions in
>> include/linux/device.h.  I haven't found a "find driver" nor an
>> arbitrary way of doing that.
>>
>> Thanks for any guidance,
>>
>> Rob
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