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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:50:40 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> A standard kernel comes with many hundreds of kernel modules. We don't
> know what you're working on specifically, but the building and loading
> and unloading of modules is not tricky.

If I remember correctly, there's even some example code of
how to create a kernel module somewhere in the source tree.
It should be a good starting point for moving the "moving
parts" into a kernel module that can be dealt with using
kldload and kldunload.


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