Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add modules.builtin.modinfo support

[Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 06:25:19PM +0100, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> 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.

How about this version ?

> 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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