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

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Mon, November 15, 2010 13:12, Dylan wrote:
> On Monday 15 Nov 2010, Richard Jones wrote:
>> Looking for some evidence of the module by what devices, proc entries
>> or sys entries it exports is the right thing to do.  A variation on
>> this is to open and use the API blindly, and catch the errors when
>> specific API calls fail because the module is not present.
>
> I'm not a developer at all, but it seems strange that there is no
> recognised
> method for obtaining this information from the kernel - surely it must
> maintain a list of loaded and compiled in modules? How does lsmod get the
> information?
>

>From /proc/modules I think.

However /proc/kallsyms seems promising, as noted in my previous email.


Salsaman.


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