From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 14:49:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E511065670 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:49:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604AE8FC1B for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:49:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A2AA46B2D; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:49:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.10]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B134F8A02A; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:49:40 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 08:00:35 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.4-CBSD-20110107; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4D6C78D3.5090803@telus.net> <198718A4-4A82-4FDB-A8F6-400F132A649E@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <198718A4-4A82-4FDB-A8F6-400F132A649E@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103010800.35666.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:49:40 -0500 (EST) Cc: Carl Subject: Re: listing all modules compiled into a kernel instance X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:49:41 -0000 On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 6:49:17 am Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 01/03/2011, at 15:10, Carl wrote: > > Kernel drivers can be (and in at least one case are) compiled into the kernel but are not reported when queried for, at least not in a way that I am aware of. For example, the ucom driver is present in the GENERIC kernel in this way. My expectation was that "kldstat -v" would list it, if present, but it does not. A design flaw? > > Sounds like a bug, but I'm not sure where.. > > Maybe ucom doesn't appear because it doesn't have a DRIVER_MODULE() declaration (because it isn't a driver). Yes, that would explain it. -- John Baldwin