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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200 |
| commit | 4131356cdab8d37fc395ca5466a0401c8573380c (patch) | |
| tree | 8c4c6f1c3172358b735b481cbbfdd9cc04b00ed9 /man2/init_module.2 | |
| parent | fd00f831b52d61a91d59cb3b46182869145d9700 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4131356cdab8.tar.gz | |
man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both
regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was
previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS.
- Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_
systems.
- STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards.
That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17
is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and
POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a
bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux',
'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if
it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs.
- In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was
in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds.
- In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I
found are deprecated by the relevant standards.
- A few other related changes...
Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/init_module.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/init_module.2 | 30 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/man2/init_module.2 b/man2/init_module.2 index 0deb15ac4a..8d4831abb7 100644 --- a/man2/init_module.2 +++ b/man2/init_module.2 @@ -244,15 +244,13 @@ fails and is set to the value returned by the .I init function. -.SH VERSIONS -.BR finit_module () -is available since Linux 3.8. .SH STANDARDS -.BR init_module () -and +Linux. +.SH HISTORY +.TP .BR finit_module () -are Linux-specific. -.SH NOTES +Linux 3.8. +.PP The .BR init_module () system call is not supported by glibc. @@ -263,15 +261,6 @@ it is (before glibc 2.23) sufficient to manually declare the interface in your code; alternatively, you can invoke the system call using .BR syscall (2). -.PP -Information about currently loaded modules can be found in -.I /proc/modules -and in the file trees under the per-module subdirectories under -.IR /sys/module . -.PP -See the Linux kernel source file -.I include/linux/module.h -for some useful background information. .SS Linux 2.4 and earlier In Linux 2.4 and earlier, the .BR init_module () @@ -336,6 +325,15 @@ and are expected to point within the module body and be initialized as appropriate for kernel space, that is, relocated with the rest of the module. +.SH NOTES +Information about currently loaded modules can be found in +.I /proc/modules +and in the file trees under the per-module subdirectories under +.IR /sys/module . +.PP +See the Linux kernel source file +.I include/linux/module.h +for some useful background information. .SH SEE ALSO .BR create_module (2), .BR delete_module (2), |