Re: loading a module

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

> > I wonder how the kernel will know which module to be loaded.
> 
> The kernel doesn't know, it just asks modprobe to do the dirty job.

Anyway. How does the kernel know it should load a module? It sure does
know when device is open (if it has no driver, it composes alias from
the major number (eq. char-major-36) and asks modprobe to load this). But
when a syscall is not installed...
& there's no entry.S entry - the sys_ni_syscall is called which returns an error.
& there is entry in entry.S - but than part of the handling has to be compiled in.

... or is there some way sys_ni_syscall tries to load module? under which alias?

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