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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:24:41 +0900 (JST)
From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
Subject: Re: Approach to integrate a driver into the kernel [winmodem]
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
	Benjamin Close <cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au>
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On 11-Oct-2001 Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
>  If the license on the kernel module is incompatible with the base
>  system, you might be able to get the hooks to support it committed to
>  FreeBSD and get the kernel modules made installable as a port.
>  /usr/local/modules anyone?  =)

I would _really_ like that :)

(No, I have no patches :)

At the moment I have integrated the ltmdm driver into sys/modules (uudecode the
.o file). This is necessary as I found the only instability was due to a stale
kld :-/

There are several other modules that would benefit from this approach too..

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