From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 4 22: 6:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2AD37B555; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA36763; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:06:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20000604220526.B54194@manatee.mammalia.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message