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

Steve Parker steve at steve-parker.org
Sun Nov 14 21:22:12 UTC 2010


I'm sure that there must be a technical way, but whoever supplied your 
kernel should be able to tell you - if it's RedHat etc, they will have a 
.config file in the kernel source package.

On 14/11/10 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 ?
>
> Regards,
> Salsaman.
>
>
>    

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