From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 4 22:35:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF20C37B6AB; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@manatee.mammalia.org) Received: (from rjoseph@localhost) by manatee.mammalia.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA54401; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:35:15 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000604223515.A54323@manatee.mammalia.org> References: <20000604220526.B54194@manatee.mammalia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:06:48PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message