{"id":59503,"date":"2023-09-29T16:15:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=3654609875a2e5d45f9195ac1e3c1e23"},"modified":"2023-09-29T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:15:56","slug":"linuxs-modprobe-adds-the-ability-to-load-a-module-from-anywhere-on-the-file-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59503","title":{"rendered":"Linux\u2019s modprobe adds the ability to load a module from anywhere on the file-system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/137304\/linuxs-modprobe-adds-the-ability-to-load-a-module-from-anywhere-on-the-file-system\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Huh, I always thought the modprobe (only from tree)\/ insmod (load your own random modules) distinction was intentional.<\/div><blockquote>\n<p>With today&rsquo;s release of kmod 31, Linux&rsquo;s <em>modprobe<\/em> utility for loading kernel modules can finally allow arbitrary paths to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-modprobe-anywhere\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allow loading new kernel modules from anywhere on the file-system<\/a>.<br \/><br \/>Surprisingly it took until 2023 for allowing Linux&rsquo;s modprobe to accept loading kernel modules from any arbitrary path. Rather than just specifying the module name and then looking up the module within the running kernel&rsquo;s modules directory, modprobe can now allow passing a path to the module. Relative paths are also supported when prefixed with &ldquo;.\/&rdquo; for the path to the desired module.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With today\u2019s release of kmod 31, Linux\u2019s modprobe utility for loading kernel modules c&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59503\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}