From owner-cvs-all  Tue Jun 29 18:28:12 1999
Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org
Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (unknown [206.127.79.91])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D0E54150AA; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com)
Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100])
	by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA28372;
	Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:28:06 -0600 (MDT)
	(envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com)
Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
	id TAA11229; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:28:06 -0600
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:28:06 -0600
Message-Id: <199906300128.TAA11229@mt.sri.com>
From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, hosokawa@FreeBSD.org,
	cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd pccardd.8
In-Reply-To: <199906300012.JAA09257@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp>
References: <199906300001.SAA10894@mt.sri.com>
	<199906300012.JAA09257@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp>
X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid
Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk

> >> > 
> >> >   Modified files:
> >> >     usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd pccardd.8 
> >> >   Log:
> >> >   FreeBSD does supports LKM now.
> >> 
> >> Actually in -current, LKM's are deprecated, so this should be backed out
> >> (if it's what it appears to be).
> 
> Sorry, I don't wanted to mean the FreeBSD LKM in 2.x, because it said
> that,
> 
> Since
> .Nm FreeBSD
> does not currently support loadable kernel modules, any
> .Em irq
> specifications in the configuration file must match the
> .Nm config
> entry for the kernel.
> 
> Now we have kld, so I think that former sentence is not correct, and
> irq specification in the config file does not have to match the kernel
> config entry now.  Am I wrong?

Ahh, I understand.  I read 'LKM' as the previous 'kernel module'
system, not as a listing of a generic capability.  I would not have used
'LKM' to describe the generic loadable kernel module because it implies
a particular (deprecated) implementation.



Nate


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message