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Date:      Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:35:15 -0700
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kerneld for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000604223515.A54323@manatee.mammalia.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006042206120.36703-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:06:48PM -0700
References:  <20000604220526.B54194@manatee.mammalia.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006042206120.36703-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:06:48PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.

So, for example, I can recompile without the xl driver and the kld will
automagically load when I reboot?


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