Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:46:49 +1030 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@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.
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