Re: Kernel modules doco?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article 
<EED16F65-A8B1-4207-A9C1-F441F78B0520%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>,
Lloyd Parkes  <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost> wrote:
>Is there any?
>
>5.0_BETA seems to contain a kernel support for the new modules stuff  
>(kern/kern_module.c), but the only stuff on userland seems to be for  
>the older LKM stuff.
>
>I can't file bug reports until I know the difference between a bug  
>and a feature.
>
>Is it my imagination, or is the new modular system only available on  
>x86 hardware, even though mount_tmpfs triggers "WARNING: module  
>error: unable to load kernel object" on the evbarm architecture?

5.0 will ship with the old lkm modules. kern_module.c is incomplete
in 5.0 and it is not used. In current the new module code (kmod)
is used and the old module code (lkm) has been removed.

christos