ladybird/Base/usr/share/man/man2/module_load.md

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Name

module_load - load a kernel module

Synopsis

#include <serenity.h>

int module_load(const char* path, size_t path_length);

Description

module_load() will load a kernel module from an ELF object file given its path in the filesystem.

Return value

If the module is successfully loaded, module_load() returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to describe the error.

Errors

  • EPERM: The calling process does not have superuser permissions.
  • EFAULT: path pointed to memory that was not accessible for the caller.
  • ENOEXEC: The specified file could not be parsed as an ELF object.
  • EINVAL: One or more symbols referred to by the module could not be resolved, or the module had no .text section, or didn't export a module_init function.
  • EEXIST: A module with the same name was already loaded.

See also