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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:08:41 +0100
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Subject: Re: Show module version sysfs file for built-in modules?
From: Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@googlemail.com>
To: devzero@web.de
Cc: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 7/29/09, devzero@web.de <devzero@web.de> wrote:
> what about this ?
>
> neoware:/sys/module/8139too # cat /sys/module/8139too/version
> 0.9.28
>
> neoware:/sys/module/8139too # modinfo 8139too |grep "^version:"
> version:        0.9.28
>
> the latter should work completely without consulting the kernel for that
> information.
>
> regards
> roland
>
>>List:       linux-kernel
>>Subject:    Show module version sysfs file for built-in modules?

modinfo clearly won't work for *built in* drivers.  Apparently
/sys/module/$MODULE/version doesn't work for built in modules either.
Hence this proposal.

Alan
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