On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Alan Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > If the above issues are fixed, builtin modules should end up being > treated as close as possible to loadable modules, and I will be very > happy :-). > > I thought the "builtin" message was inconsistent at first, because > "modprobe -v $module" is currently silent if $module is already > loaded. But I see it is useful because "lsmod" won't work for builtin > modules.
Perhaps we could extend lsmod to list the builtins, adding a (builtin) qualifier to the Used By column, eg: Module Size Used by [...] usbcore - (builtin) [...] Ok, it's trivial to cat modules.builtin but an end user might only know about lsmod. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
