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

salsaman at xs4all.nl salsaman at xs4all.nl
Sun Nov 14 23:03:52 UTC 2010


On Sun, November 14, 2010 23:53, John Hearns 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 ?
>
>
> /proc/config.gz contains the kernel configuration for the running kernel.
> Is that any use?
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i don't have that file on my system (ubuntu 10.10)

Salsaman.


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