insmod fails when strace'd

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:28:42 +0100

When I strace insmod, it inserts modules, but doesn't bother to initialise
them.

For any module I've tried so far...

target4 /root # insmod ntfs
NTFS version 980101
target4 /root # rmmod ntfs
target4 /root # strace -o /dev/null insmod ntfs
target4 /root # lsmod
Module Size Used by
ntfs 32840 0 (uninitialized)
psaux 2044 1 (autoclean)
ipx 12180 0 (autoclean)
devpts 3112 1 (autoclean)
ad1848 14112 0
sound 55572 0 [ad1848]
soundlow 208 0 [sound]
target4 /root # rmmod ntfs
target4 /root #

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