Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:40:40 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Elf Kernel : replying to myself Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811030937540.27548-100000@zone.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811030927260.27548-100000@zone.syracuse.net>
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I am referring also that it would check to see if this file exists, and
return a malloced answer, else return NULL. This way it would be asy to
say something like
char *name;
if ((name = getkldbyname("mfs")) != NULL {
kldload(name);
free(name);
} else {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not load mfs.\n");
exit(1);
}
Brian Feldman
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote:
> So should we take the VFS loading out of libc and add it to mount? Or
> should there be a wrapper function in libc, getkldbyname (char *name) and
> return "/modules/name.ko"?
>
> Brian Feldman
>
> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Peter Wemm wrote:
>
> > Brian Feldman wrote:
> > > Ahhhh, that's where it is! I have no good idea on how to allow, with this
> > > code, lkm's and kld's to coexist.... so is it time to completely phase out
> > > lkm's yet?
> >
> > I think the best way is to have mount(2) initiate a kldload if needed. We
> > will need this functionality sooner or later. If mount(2) does it, we can
> > garbage collect unused, unmounted filesystems after a while and unload
> > them.
> >
> > > Brian Feldman
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, John Hay wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Be sure to let me know when ELF kernels can autoload kld modules like the
> > > > > current a.out kernel does with lkm's.
> > > >
> > > > It's not the kernel that loads them. Go and look in lib/libc/gen/getvfsent.
> > c
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > > --
> > > > John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Peter
> > --
> > Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting
> > "No coffee, No workee!" :-)
> >
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