Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] modules: add version and srcversion to sysfs

[Bill Davidsen]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:09, Matt Domsch wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:22:29AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:05, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > >
> > > > Module:  Add module version and srcversion to the sysfs tree
> > >
> > > why do you need this?
> >
> > a) Tools like DKMS, which deal with changing out individual kernel
> > modules without replacing the whole kernel, can behave smarter if they
> > can tell the version of a given module.
>
>
> They can look at the modules in /lib/modules/$(uname -r).

I think he means he wants to know what's in memory, not on the disk.

[ snip ]
> > c) as the unbind-driver-from-device work takes shape, it will be
> > possible to rebind a driver that's built-in (no .ko to modinfo for the
> > version) to a newly loaded module.  sysfs will have the
> > currently-built-in version info, for comparison.
> >
> > d) tech support scripts can then easily grab the version info for
> > what's running presently - a question I get often.
>
>
> That's something you can do entirely in userspace by looking at the *.ko
> files.

How do you find which *.ko file was used to load the module in memory? I 
think you are talking about two things here.

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