From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 6:39:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D95037B400 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:39:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020221143916.PNOD1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:39:16 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1LEdFk80303; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:39:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:39:15 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel loader Message-ID: <20020221063914.U48401@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020221131541.GA6721@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020221131541.GA6721@raggedclown.net>; from csfbsd@raggedclown.net on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:15:41PM +0100 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:15:41PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Well, I tried this out in -hackers, and got a couple of mono-syllabic > replies, but no-one answered my question. So I will try it here. > > The kernel loader code has mechanisms to implant dependencies in the > module code, e.g. if module A requires module B, then you can build > this knowledge into module A. > > Now I do not believe that if you load module A, then module B is > automagically loaded as well. [snip] > I am looking for the > same functionality in FreeBSD. I do not believe it exists. > > Can anyone confirm this, or refute it. I can confirm that module dependencies work fine on -CURRENT. Not so sure about -STABLE. And if it does not, what the MFC status is. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message