Re: [RESEND PATCH v1] moduleparam: Save information about built-in modules in separate file

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:41:59AM -0700, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 8:40 AM Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >No. There are definitely not all modules. I have a builtin sha256_generic,
> > >but I can't find him in the /sys/module.
> >
> > Yeah, you'll only find builtin modules under /sys/module/ if it has any module
> > parameters, otherwise you won't find it there. As Masahiro already mentioned,
> > if a builtin module has any parameters, they would be accessible under /sys/module/.
> 
> Could we please change that and add the sysfs entry regardless of
> what's being discussed here? Not having the entry there simply because
> we don't have parameters for that module always annoyed me.

What is the sysfs directory going to show?  Will it just be empty?

Feel free to send a patch for this, but from what I remember, it wasn't
the easiest thing to do for some reason.  But given that the code was
implemented before git was, I can't quite remember.

thanks,

greg k-h