Re: A question about binary-only drivers...

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 18:40:34 -0400


Magnus Näslund(b) wrote:
>
> Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> >> Ok, i'm at it again putting my foot in my mouth:
> >>
> >> A kernel module, can it use standard .so libs?
>
> >No.
>
> Is there maybe some way of loading some 2nd level module with only functions
> exported for this kind of reason?

Sure; you can have depmod and modprobe do the work for you, or you can
use kmod and request_module() manually.

Note the latter method is more flexible, but it generally forces you to
use function pointers instead of direct calls to exported functions.

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