Re: [MiNT] patch:MiNT:KM_FREE

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 00:16 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Alan Hourihane a écrit :
> > Would you be willing to add unique identification to module loading
> > rather than use a filename ?
> > 
> > Then I'd be happy to commit. I think using filenames may not be robust
> > enough.
> 
> As a source of inspiration, does Linux use something else than a 
> filename ? I'm not sure. For loading modules, the modprobe command takes 
> the basename of a module (filename without extension) and search for it 
> in a well-known directory, if it has not already been loaded.
> What happens on Linux if some pervert renames a module and tries to load 
> it 2 times ?

Good point.

So if we go with the filename approach, I think linux just uses the
modulename without ".ko" and you don't specify any path.

Is this how your patch works Helmut ?

Alan.