From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 11:43:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FDEF37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB9943FDD for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:43:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3MIgk910479; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:42:46 -0300 Message-ID: <3EA58D26.9070007@tcoip.com.br> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:42:46 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert References: <200304171136.57515.agh@tpg.com.au> <3E9EB7DF.4040104@tcoip.com.br> <20030417.205459.78025666.imp@bsdimp.com> <3EA531A0.3060209@tcoip.com.br> <3EA58BD3.5EBEB3B2@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3EA58BD3.5EBEB3B2@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: Auto kernel module loading X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:43:17 -0000 Terry Lambert wrote: > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > >>>Yes. My plan is to make devd deal with most of the problem... You'll >>>still need to compile / device into your kernel, however. >> >>Mmmm? The point is having a minimal kernel.ko. If you still have to >>compile the device in the kernel, it does nothing at all to reach the >>desired goal. > > > This is like claiming that you haven't made the kernel pageable, > if you can't page out the page-in code. 8-). > > Anything in the boot path, necessary to get you to the point > where the kernel can actually load any remaining modules, must > be statically present in the kernel. As bsdimp noted, I misunderstood what he meant. In retrospective, what I _thought_ he meant didn't make any sense at all, but I guess it was too early in the morning for me. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Too clever is dumb. -- Ogden Nash