Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Oct 09 2012 - 18:09:47 EST


On 10/10/2012 06:03 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Good point. A "whole hog" openat()-style interface is worth thinking about too.

*Although* you could argue that you can always simply open the module
file first, and that finit_module() is really what we should have had in
the first place. Then you don't need the flags since those would come
from openat().

-hpa


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