Re: Basic question..

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Raghava Raju wrote:

> 
> 
>    Hi
> 
>         I am new to kernel programming. I have
>    just written a module consisting of init and
> cleanup
>    functions. I call init function of the module in
>    kernel initialization function. So when system
>    comes up, it shows that it entered module init 
>    function(printk in "init" print some string), but 
>    when I do lsmod it is not there in  list of 
>    modules. But if I do insmod module, the module is
>    listed in lsmod output. So is it that calling init
>    module and insmod are not equivalent?
> 
>    Thank You
>    Raghava.

If it's built into the kernel (a driver), it's not a module.
It won't show when executing `lsmod`. It also can't be removed.
Only drivers inserted as modules show with `lsmod`.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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