[Gllug] How to check if module is in kernel ?

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Mon, November 15, 2010 01:14, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> On 14 November 2010 21:18,  <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Hi, I am currently working on a plugin which uses vloopback. Vloopback
>> can
>> be either installed as a module or compiled directly into the kernel.
>>
>> If it is a module, it is easy to check for its presence with lsmod |
>> grep
>> vloopback. However, this will fail if the module is compiled into the
>> kernel. Is there some way to check for this in linux ?
>>
>
> I have not used vloopback, but as modules initialise they normally
> output at least one line to the kernel log.
> So, look in "dmesg".

OK, I think I am confusing myself.

It seems I upgraded my kernel recently and I am actually missing the
vloopback module now.


Because it wasn't there I was thinking it had been compiled into the kernel.

Salsaman.


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