From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 20 11: 9:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB8437B402 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:09:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16dc71-000FTF-00 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:09:07 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 7B44D13040 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:09:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id 43BE722590; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:09:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:09:06 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question and a suggestion about loadable modules Message-ID: <20020220190906.GJ3600@raggedclown.net> References: <20020219185856.GB1191@raggedclown.net> <20020219205809.GA18746@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020219205809.GA18746@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:58:09PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. > Ok, well the facility exists I see. Is it used ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message