From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 11:49:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667E11065678 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:49:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1A78FC0A for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp203-122-198-192.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [203.122.198.192]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p21BnH8m089217 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:19:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <4D6C78D3.5090803@telus.net> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:19:17 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <198718A4-4A82-4FDB-A8F6-400F132A649E@gsoft.com.au> References: <4D6C78D3.5090803@telus.net> To: Carl X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: listing all modules compiled into a kernel instance X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:49:28 -0000 On 01/03/2011, at 15:10, Carl wrote: > Kernel drivers can be (and in at least one case are) compiled into the = kernel but are not reported when queried for, at least not in a way that = I am aware of. For example, the ucom driver is present in the GENERIC = kernel in this way. My expectation was that "kldstat -v" would list it, = if present, but it does not. A design flaw? Sounds like a bug, but I'm not sure where.. Maybe ucom doesn't appear because it doesn't have a DRIVER_MODULE() = declaration (because it isn't a driver). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C