Re: [MiNT] patch:MiNT:KM_FREE

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

On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 09:14 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 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.

Actually, I can see it's just the filename.

I'll commit this to the enhancements branch for now to allow more
testing.

Alan.