"H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> writes: > On 10/10/2012 06:03 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Good point. A "whole hog" openat()-style interface is worth thinking about >> too. > > *Although* you could argue that you can always simply open the module > file first, and that finit_module() is really what we should have had in > the first place. Then you don't need the flags since those would come > from openat().
There's no fundamental reason that modules have to be in a file. I'm thinking of compressed modules, or an initrd which simply includes all the modules it wants to load in one linear file. Also, --force options manipulate the module before loading (as did the now-obsolete module rename option). Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
