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Subject: Re: Accessing filesystem from a KLD
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In message: <42F160E7-9B19-4A8A-8656-A86E0076EBB3@FreeBSD.org>
            Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org> writes:
: You can use vn_open() to open the file, and then read it using vn_rdwr 
: (), and finally, vn_close() to close it. Look at src/sys/kern/ 
: link_elf_obj.c for an example.

There's also a desire to provide an easier to use interface for
drivers to load, for example, firmware.

Warner