From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 12:20:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A39637C32E for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.222]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.4) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:21:42 -0700 Message-ID: <39662D5C.1662F3BE@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 12:19:56 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Sexton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to best use kld's References: <20000707143724.A60592@tabby.kudra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Unless it was an accident, my kernel build today (cvsup'ed 1800 GMT) did a lot of kld-modules on 4.0-Stable. It promptly died with a compile error. Kent > > -- > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message