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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:29:00 +0200
From: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>
To: Yaroslav Rastrigin <yarick@relex.ru>
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Subject: Re: fun or real: proc interface for module handling?
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Yaroslav Rastrigin [Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:13:24PM +0400]:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I was just joking around here, but what do you think about this idea:
> >
> > A proc interface for module handling:
> >    /proc/mods/
> >    /proc/mods/<module-name>/<link-to-the-modules-use-us>
> >
> > So we could try to load a module with
> >    mkdir /proc/mods/ipv6
> > and remove it and every module which uses us with
> >    rm -r /proc/mods/ipv6
> >
>=20
> Well, this idea itsel is quite neat, and could sometimes save lots of tim=
e=20
> (esp. when dealing with serious modules' deps). I would like to propose=
=20
> slightly different appropach:
> cp /lib/modules/2.6.0-test2/kernel/drivers/somedriver.ko /proc/modtree
> [...]

sounds nice, too.
With this idea the kernel would get the code directly, which is very nice.

Nico

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