From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 11:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7968637B670 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (root@rac10.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.150]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA15440; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:49:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA16327; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:49:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16323; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:49:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac10.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:49:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Robert Sexton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to best use kld's In-Reply-To: <20000707143724.A60592@tabby.kudra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I use modules for a lot of things on FreeBSD-CURRENT (even though this is recommended against, I don't like having a HUGE kernel with everything in it, when I only use some of the stuff like once a month). I have not yet seen any issues with crashes or anything of that nature as a result of using modules (even with the sound drivers loaded as modules I see no problems). I would reccomend just fooling around with the modules and seeing if there are any problems. If there aren't any problems... use them as you need to..... filesystem modules are auto-loaded. The best way to automatically load other modules (Aside from the ones loaded in rc.conf) is to load them by adding lines like the example below to /boot/loader.conf. I would suggest looking at all the modules and deciding which you don't use that often, and then use modules for that hardware if it is supported. bktr_load="YES" but substitute the name of the module for "bktr" ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Robert Sexton wrote: > This question refers to 4.0-STABLE > > Whats the current thinking on kld's? It seems that every time I turn > around, another driver has moved into the kld tree. > > I generally hard wire all of my drivers, but I see now that even > network drivers are moving out into kld-land. Should I get with the > times and dynamic load things (it would simplify kernel config across > machines), or are the old ways better? If so, do I have to specify > the klds, or how to I trigger the load? I see that most of the > filesystems are now dynamic, which sounds good to me. > > > -- > Robert Sexton - robert@kudra.com, Cincinnati OH, USA > "I was shooting from the hip in a dark room using a gun > loaded with blanks." - Jason > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message