On 10/11/2012 03:16 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> writes: > >> On 10/10/2012 06:03 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> Good point. A "whole hog" openat()-style interface is worth thinking about >>> too. >> >> *Although* you could argue that you can always simply open the module >> file first, and that finit_module() is really what we should have had in >> the first place. Then you don't need the flags since those would come >> from openat(). > > There's no fundamental reason that modules have to be in a file. I'm > thinking of compressed modules, or an initrd which simply includes all > the modules it wants to load in one linear file. > > Also, --force options manipulate the module before loading (as did the > now-obsolete module rename option). >
So perhaps what we *should* have is something that points to the module to a (buffer, length) in userspace, and the equivalent of the current init_module() would be open() + mmap() + minit_module() + close()? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/