Re: [PATCH 1/2] Enlist running kernel modules information

[Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>]

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On 14:48 Wed 04 Dec 2019, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
>On 04.12.19 05:22, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>> I think the usefulness comes from developers wants to see what are the
>> modules are using by the running kernel in formatted way.
>> This is very simple way to enlist all the modules with descriptions of
>> it.So , they can easily parse it with other scripts.
>
>IMHO, this is a good thing to have. I can even imagine it shipped by
>distros, for better bug reports.
>
>OTOH, if it's about the currently running kernel and loaded modules, why
>not putting this into /proc or /sys ?

The reason being not putting in the /proc or /sys is, it is not
dynamically generated stuff. This is small script which do a specific
task ,out of the information available  in /proc or /sys.

And essentially resides in the scripts directory for easy finding and
using.  

:)

~Bhaskar
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