[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/18] fm10k: add fm10k device id

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Thu May 7 15:39:38 CEST 2015


On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> > I tried to reuse modinfo, but the problem is that kmod implementation is
> > checking the filename extension against .ko and .ko.gz.
> >
> Well, you can alter modinfo so that it looks at .so files if you like, but
> thats
> not the only tool you can use.  Truthfully you can just use objdump if you
> like.
>
> > I find it a bit too bad to have to rewrite this kind of tool just for
> dpdk
> > ... but on the other hand we would need something for bsd as well or we
> > give a shell script that rely on readelf to retrieve theis section.
> >
> See above, try objdump -j=.modinfo -S /path/to/kernel/module.  objdump
> doesn't
> care about file extensions, as long as its ELF.  With that you can:
>
> 1) Dump out any section contents you like
> 2) strip away the application top end, and just use libbfd to get at the
> elf
> contents if you like.
>

Yes, I reached the same conclusion.
Ok, I will see what I can do.

Thanks.


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David Marchand


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