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Date:      Sun, 04 Jun 2000 15:06:01 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kerneld for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000604150601.Q8612@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000604105336.E17973@fw.wintelcom.net>
References:  <20000604135639.A48917@cokane.yi.org> <20000604105336.E17973@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Sunday, June 04, 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> I thought Linux did away with thier kerneld concept.  Afaik we can 
> currently load a kld from within kernel context, can you please 
> explain further what you want to do?

   We can, and we also dynamically load modules when needed
(ifconfig, mount).  The kernel can also load modules from KLD
files "on its own" via kern_linker.c:linker_load_file().  An
example of usage is in vfs_syscalls.c:mount(), where if a
specified file system configuration structure (vfsconf) is not
found in the list of 'configured' file systems, mount(2) attempts
to load a module for the file system, if one exists.

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Debugger: A tool that substitutes afterthought for forethought.
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