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>This is directly addressed by the KLD system.  The terminology is that a
>'file' (ELF or a.out) is loaded by the kernel linker.  The file contains a
>number of 'modules', each of which is initialised and has an event handler
>(similar to lkmdispatch).  The kernel in many ways is a file which
>contains all the statically linked modules.

How are module dependencies represented and honored?

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Justin