2010-06-13 04:33:41

by Robert Emanuele

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Subject: Testing to see if a driver is loaded

Greetings once again,

I was wondering if there is a simple way to test if a driver is loaded
from within another driver's probe? I have one driver that depends on
another. I see several *_find_device functions in
include/linux/device.h. I haven't found a "find driver" nor an
arbitrary way of doing that.

Thanks for any guidance,

Rob


2010-06-14 19:04:36

by Robert Emanuele

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Subject: Re: Testing to see if a driver is loaded

Hi Raj,

I appreciate the thought, but if you read my email closely you'll see
that I was looking for how to find if a driver is loaded into the
kernel (module or not) from within another driver's probe function.

--Rob

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Raj singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi ,
> ??????? You can use lsmod command...
>
> login as root & type lsmod | head -10...it will show you a list of drivers
> currently loaded in your kernel....
>
>
> Raj.
>
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Robert Emanuele <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings once again,
>>
>> I was wondering if there is a simple way to test if a driver is loaded
>> from within another driver's probe? ?I have one driver that depends on
>> another. ?I see several *_find_device functions in
>> include/linux/device.h. ?I haven't found a "find driver" nor an
>> arbitrary way of doing that.
>>
>> Thanks for any guidance,
>>
>> Rob
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2010-06-14 23:54:00

by Robert Hancock

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Subject: Re: Testing to see if a driver is loaded

On 06/12/2010 10:33 PM, Robert Emanuele wrote:
> Greetings once again,
>
> I was wondering if there is a simple way to test if a driver is loaded
> from within another driver's probe? I have one driver that depends on
> another. I see several *_find_device functions in
> include/linux/device.h. I haven't found a "find driver" nor an
> arbitrary way of doing that.
>
> Thanks for any guidance,

There's not a simple answer, it depends what you are trying to achieve
(i.e. in what way is the driver dependent on the other one..)