From: tobias@gambas-buch.de (Tobias Boege)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Regarding module init function
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 14:22:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130104132213.GB526@aurora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+NV+VkPvNW-ZJ=T5nvH=WhvXmsDFDsBpMwF5RNM3WyfCQSOog@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 04 Jan 2013, Rahul Bedarkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This may be stupid question.
>
> When we compile external module and insert it, it's init function is called
> and when we remove it, it's exit function gets called.
>
> What happens in case of built-in modules? When it's init and exit is
> called? May be take example of one of auxdriver.
>
You can find relevant information in LDD3, pp. 31 ff.. Basically, there is
no difference in the use of the init function (it's called at kernel
startup, I suppose) but exit is simply discarded in this case, because if
your module is built-in, it could never be removed.
Regards,
Tobi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-04 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-04 11:18 Regarding module init function Rahul Bedarkar
2013-01-04 13:22 ` Tobias Boege [this message]
2013-01-08 8:40 ` Rahul Bedarkar
2013-01-08 10:08 ` Rahul Bedarkar
2013-01-08 13:31 ` Dave Hylands
2013-01-08 13:50 ` Rahul Bedarkar
2013-01-08 14:33 ` Dave Hylands
2013-01-08 13:51 ` Tobias Boege
2013-01-08 16:44 ` anish kumar
2013-01-10 8:47 ` Tobias Boege
2013-01-12 5:49 ` Dave Hylands
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