[Bug translator/4281] two problems with "stap -m"

hunt at redhat dot com sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Mon Mar 26 18:45:00 GMT 2007


------- Additional Comments From hunt at redhat dot com  2007-03-26 19:45 -------
(In reply to comment #6)

> I looked at this before -- I think the kernel gets the module name from some
> compiled variable rather than the name of the actual ko.  So simply renaming the
> binary isn't enough to allow multiple instances.

No, you would have to read in the module header and modify the name in place.
It's a fixed size static buffer so it isn't hard. This is what "modprobe -o" does.


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