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* [PATCH v2 0/4] Add modules.builtin.modinfo support
@ 2019-11-08 17:25 Alexey Gladkov
  2019-11-08 17:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] libkmod: Add parser for modules.builtin.modinfo Alexey Gladkov
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Alexey Gladkov @ 2019-11-08 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-modules; +Cc: Lucas De Marchi

The kernel since version v5.2-rc1 exports information about built-in
modules in the modules.builtin.modinfo. Now, kmod can show complete information
about the built-in modules as well as about external modules. Also kmod can
understand aliases of built-in modules.

Before:

$ modinfo block-major-9-1
modinfo: ERROR: Module block-major-9-1 not found.

After:

$ modinfo block-major-9-1
name:           md_mod
filename:       (builtin)
alias:          block-major-9-*
alias:          md
description:    MD RAID framework
license:        GPL
parm:           start_dirty_degraded:int
parm:           create_on_open:bool

v2:

* Don't use kmod_file() to parse modules.builtin.modinfo. Instead, parser reads
the file into the buffer by chunks, which reduces the amount of memory.

Alexey Gladkov (4):
  libkmod: Add parser for modules.builtin.modinfo
  libkmod: Add function to get list of built-in modules
  Lookup aliases in the modules.builtin.modinfo
  modinfo: Show information about built-in modules

 Makefile.am                |   1 +
 libkmod/libkmod-builtin.c  | 329 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 libkmod/libkmod-internal.h |  10 ++
 libkmod/libkmod-module.c   |  73 +++++++-
 libkmod/libkmod.c          |  25 +++
 libkmod/libkmod.h          |   1 +
 tools/depmod.c             |  63 +++++++
 tools/modinfo.c            |  39 +++--
 8 files changed, 514 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 libkmod/libkmod-builtin.c

-- 
2.21.0


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