From 2e6e52f87357d8501331b399e4f5be8441568bc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:40:25 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] Some topics to study about modules. --- modules/topics | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 modules/topics diff --git a/modules/topics b/modules/topics new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2b93e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/topics @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +loading/unloading: insmod, modprobe, rmmod + +symbol resolving: modprobe, depmod +It was in modutils before and was ported to the kernel itself. + +linking: link to version symbols + +versioning: modversions and other ways of distributing modules + +DKMS: I hate when they make it easy to binary only distributions. +It seems to be a build system called Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework. It +makes it easier to upgrade modules and kernels. + +modalias: hotplug +When creating a socket, for example, its family is load automatically, through +aliasing. It was once in modprobe.conf, but it is in the module themselves now. + +kmod: old, obsolete way of hotplug. -- 2.20.1