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

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Sun Nov 14 22:53:01 UTC 2010


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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