Tim Bird wrote:
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Tim Bird wrote:
I agree. When you say "have the application call modprobe directly",
I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
I simply meant that you can fork and exec modprobe itself (or use
system() but that
would require a working shell). This would "save" the need for a
separate script and a shell.
Well, this would explain why I didn't follow your original
point. I thought you were using the word "modprobe" as a placeholder
for some other module-installation-related concept.
Well, modprobe could just as well be insmod, but the basic idea is still
the same.
The only downside I see of calling the sys_init_module syscall directly
is that it
doesn't do any of the dependency tracking that modprobe does, so it's more
a insmod replacement then a modprobe one, but I doubt this matters at
all in an
embedded system anyway.
It may just be my own blind spot, but I can't think of a good
reason to do such dependency tracking in an embedded device.
It is a sad state of affairs if the product developers don't
know the module dependencies for their own products.
For custom built modules written in house , I agree - but think of one
of those devices that has an OTG USB port, the kind that you can one day
connect it to a computer to play the part of a USB storage gadget and
the next day hook a it to up to a serial USB connected GSM modem.
It's crazy to have all that functionality loaded into the device RAM at
all times and the using modprobe to track the dependencies of the module
makes just as much sense as it does for your laptop.
I guess the term "embedded" gets kind of blurry with these things, but I
also think Linux adoption in the embedded world is driven by this trend.
Cheers,
Gilad
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