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Today, I will talk to you about what is the hot plug and module under Linux. Many people may not know much about it. In order to make you understand better, the editor has summarized the following content for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

File systems, device drivers, and network protocols can all be understood as modules. The module is also an ordinary software system in essence. What is a module

File systems, device drivers, and network protocols can all be understood as modules. The module is also an ordinary software system in essence.

2. Hot plug

Hardware level: add or delete corresponding components, such as power supply and hard disk, only without power outage or system shutdown. Some high-end devices have hot-swappable hard drives, such as our Windows laptop, where the battery can be replaced with power from an adapter. The hot-swappable bottom layer of computer hardware needs the support of the operating system.

Software level: this concept also exists in the software industry. Personally, I think Android's hot fix is similar.

This time we are talking about the hot plug of the Linux module relative to the kernel, which can be regarded as a hardware device and the kernel as the whole physical computer. There is also a common intuitive example, such as using VMware software to virtualize the physical machine or the physical machine itself allows the operating system to load third-party devices: mobile hard drives, USB drives, mobile phones, etc.

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