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

[Dylan]

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?

Dylan

> 
> Rich.


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