From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 9:29:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B32837B402 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:29:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16dx1y-0001jD-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:29:18 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 2ED2213040 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:29:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 41DDE22590; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:29:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:29:15 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel loader Message-ID: <20020221172915.GB8086@raggedclown.net> References: <20020221131541.GA6721@raggedclown.net> <20020221063914.U48401@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020221063914.U48401@blossom.cjclark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 06:39:15AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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. Ok. Thanks. I wonder why no-one in hackers didn't just say that. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message