From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 10 23: 4: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C9937B405; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:03:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9B63rM82824; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:03:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E9F3809; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:03:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Warner Losh , Mark Peek , bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov , Bruce Evans , Boris Popov , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kldxref broken, maybe? In-Reply-To: <20011010165208.P387@blossom.cjclark.org> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:03:53 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011011060353.71E9F3809@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > This is a database that should be rebuilt at boot time too. > > Are KLDs moving around between boots? Should klxref be moved to /sbin? No. It is not necessary for system recovery. It is a hints database. The sysadmin can explicitly load kld files by pathname at any time. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message