Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:06:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006042206120.36703-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000604220526.B54194@manatee.mammalia.org>
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On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> > Maybe you should take a look in /modules sometime :-)
> >
> Most of the ones I've needed, like ext2fs or the xl ethernet driver
> haven't had modules. The cool thing about kerneld is that it loads
> them automatically.
The point you've missed is that under FreeBSD modules are (can be) loaded
on demand by the *kernel* when they're not compiled in.
Kris
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