On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Kirill Tkhai [off-list ref] wrote:

On 14.09.2014 21:27, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

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On 09/14, Greg KH wrote:

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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 02:18:13PM +0400, Kirill Tkhai wrote:

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This series implements a possibility to show the list of built-in drivers
to userspace. The names of drivers will be the same as when they are modules.

Have you looked at /sys/modules/ ?  Doesn't that show what you want
here?

Well, /sys/module/ doesn't list the modules (drivers) compiled in. Say,
/sys/module/kernel. And it can't help a user to figure out that, say, the
loop driver is already "loaded" because CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y.

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Module names aren't "standardized", we change them at times when needed,
just like CONFIG_ names.

OK, but still the name will be the same, in /proc/modules or /proc/builtin.

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What is your end goal here?  As you say, config.gz is the real kernel
configuration, just having a list of modules built in isn't going to
help much in getting a working kernel config without it.

Perhaps you are right... but otoh perhaps this can can be useful anyway.
Again, a user can know about "insmod loop", but he can know nothing
about CONFIG_ names.

That said, I do not really understand 2/3. Not only I do not understand
this kbuild magic, I am not sure I understand what /proc/built-in will
actually show.

It's a list of drivers, one driver per line:

Built-in modules or drivers? :-)

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Thanks,
//richard