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Date:      Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:42:57 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: modules: how to use?
Message-ID:  <19991007154257.I78191@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910070253100.393-100000@thelab.hub.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910070253100.393-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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On Thursday,  7 October 1999 at  3:00:52 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their
> kld's, I'd start playing with ours...

Yes, it's funny how the Linuxers rave about loadable modules.  It's a
good idea, but I don't see anything that spectacular about it.

> Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove
> "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ...
>
> crashes...

How?

> so, I figure that I somehow have to tell the kernel to load that module?
>
> checked the kld man page, and nothing in there appears to be
> appropriate...and just looked at my /usr/src/etc/rc* files to see if maybe
> it was something I was supposed to configure in there, but nothing appears
> to be in tehre either...
>
> Help?

Well, the standard way to load a kld is with kldload(1) or kldload(2).
I don't know if procfs works properly like this, though.

Greg
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