Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Wed, 27 May 2009 23:26:12 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: generate modules.builtin |
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 17:25, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote: > To make it easier for tools like mkinitrd to detect whether a needed > module is missing or whether it is compiled into the kernel, install a > modules.builtin file listing all modules built into the kernel. This is > done by generating an alternate config file with all tristate =y options > set to =Y and reading the makefiles with this config included. The built > in modules then appear in obj-Y.
That looks very useful.
We like to have that for modprobe not to throw an error if a "module" is already in the kernel, because it is compiled in. Only modules with parameters show up in /sys/modules/ and they are already handled fine.
Thanks, Kay
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