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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:01:56 -0400
From: "Ryan Hope" <rmh3093@gmail.com>
To: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: Help writing kernel module...
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what about if I want to determine if a module is loaded?

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:00:26PM -0400, Ryan Hope wrote:
>> I can't find any information on how to make a kernel module load
>> another module. Can someone please tell me how to do this? Thanks in
>> advance.
>
> Use a symbol exported by that other module and your module should
> automatically depend on that module and modprobe will nicely load it
> before your module for you.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>
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