Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:54:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: kld and on demand device loading Message-ID: <199812290554.WAA23027@harmony.village.org>
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I've been kicking around ideas for making kld even more useful than I'm currently finding it. Before getting too deeply into the kicking around, I thought I'd define the problem and see if others have thought about it as well. Once upon a time, I recall that the linux kernel had a way to dynamically load drivers and unload them on an as needed basis. Need to make a slip connection, the slip driver would load. Once it was done it would unload. In the long term, I'd love to see something like that. I believe that it dovetails well with the new-bus project nicely. In the near term, an area that it fits fairly well is the pcmica stuff. When a card is inserted, the module is loaded, and when removed it is released. I was thinking of hacking pccardd to do this, but then got to thinking better of it and thought I'd ask for people's input before jumping into that. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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