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Subject: Re: KLD loading, liking
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Alexej Sokolov <bsd.quest@googlemail.com> writes:
> Not only that. The use of the MODULE_DEPEND macro allows one module to
> access the variables of modules on which it depends.

No.  Any module X can access any public variable or function in the
kernel or in any other module Y, but loading X will fail if Y is not
already loaded.  The only effect of MODULE_DEPEND is to tell the loader
that Y must be loaded before X.

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