I have gone through LDD3 page 31. But it didn't answer my question. It is describing module init and exit when manually loading driver and removing it. I want to know when one of auxdriver (selected in from menuconfig) is built as built-in module. When and Who calls it's init function ?
Thanks, Rahul On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Tobias Boege <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jan 2013, Rahul Bedarkar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This may be stupid question. > > > > When we compile external module and insert it, it's init function is > called > > and when we remove it, it's exit function gets called. > > > > What happens in case of built-in modules? When it's init and exit is > > called? May be take example of one of auxdriver. > > > > You can find relevant information in LDD3, pp. 31 ff.. Basically, there is > no difference in the use of the init function (it's called at kernel > startup, I suppose) but exit is simply discarded in this case, because if > your module is built-in, it could never be removed. > > Regards, > Tobi > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >
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