From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 19 12:58:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF88F37B400 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1JKwAi16728; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:58:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:58:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question and a suggestion about loadable modules Message-ID: <20020219205809.GA18746@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020219185856.GB1191@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020219185856.GB1191@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 19), Cliff Sarginson said: > Hello, > Someone suggested this may be the right list for this. > > - Has consideration in the loadable modules implementation been given > to a module dependency facility, in the manner of "depmod" in Linux ? > So that any module loaded will automagically load modules it depends > on to run ? See the module(9) and MODULE_DEPEND(9) manpages. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message