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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 19 May 2003 17:48:01 -0600 (MDT), "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> said:

> The .dsc files are just used when one can't load the .ko for an error
> message.  I don't think they really add much for their 'cost' in the
> install environment.

We really should do all of the loading in the loader, anyway.  A
little script that prompts ``Load additional driver modules? [yn]''
shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish, and there are some things we
might want to include (like GEOM classes) that may need to be
pre-loaded.

-GAWollman