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

[Rusty Russell]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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().

There's no fundamental reason that modules have to be in a file.  I'm
thinking of compressed modules, or an initrd which simply includes all
the modules it wants to load in one linear file.

Also, --force options manipulate the module before loading (as did the
now-obsolete module rename option).

Cheers,
Rusty.
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