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Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 12:37:16 +0100
From: Thomas Heinz <thomasheinz@gmx.net>
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Subject: Find module by name
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Hi

I want to implement a kind of module autoloading mechanism.
The situation is the following: There are two modules A and B,
where A needs module B to be loaded under certain (runtime)
conditions.

First I thought the solution would be pretty simple. I wanted to
use a function like find_module from kernel/module.c to search
module_list for a module of a certain name. If it is not there
request_module would be used to load the module and afterwards
another find_module call should return a pointer to the module
if the call succeeded.

Unfortunately this solutions does not work in general as
module_list is not exported which means that I'm getting those
nasty 'unresolved symbol' messages when insmoding module A.

Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.


Thomas

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