Hi Danny,

Thanks for the explanation, I was unaware of all these subtleties…

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> Every time we want to lookup a module by modname, check a hashtable that
> is built from modules.dep by:
>  
> * let x-path be the first value of each modules.dep line.
> * Then the key for the hashtable entry is (underscore (stop-at-dot (basename x-path)))
> * And the value for the hashtable entry is x-path.
>
> In this way we would look up modules in a way similar to them.

Instead of guessing, we could also store a mapping from module name to
file name.  I had that in a previous patch series that we discussed some
time ago (see below.)

This a custom format, not used by kmod or any other tool, but the
advantage is that it solves the module/file name mapping without ugly
guess-hacks.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.