From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 30 18:58:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7256937B436; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 18:58:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBV2uUm52335; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:56:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:56:30 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mike Smith , Alfred Perlstein , hackers@freebsd.org, alc@freebsd.org, tegge@freebsd.org, jlemon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loadable aio Message-ID: <20011230215630.B45114@espresso.q9media.com> References: <200112281848.fBSImKF13265@mass.dis.org> <3C2FCF32.5C77105E@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C2FCF32.5C77105E@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:36:34PM -0800 Organization: The FreeBSD Project 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 Terry Lambert writes: > There is so much "goo" around the module loading these days; there > are incursions into "mount" and all sorts of other programs that > should not know about module loading. The kldload(2) interface alone is enough to make me cringe. The way in which it locates a module to load appears to be black magic. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message