From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 6:19:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kcmso1.proxy.att.com (kcmso1.att.com [192.128.133.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9673837BB9E for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 06:19:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from myevmenkin@att.com) Received: from njb140r1.ems.att.com ([135.65.202.58]) by kcmso1.proxy.att.com (AT&T IPNS/MSO-2.2) with ESMTP id JAA25656 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:19:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from njb140bh2.ems.att.com by njb140r1.ems.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/ATTEMS-1.4.1 sol2) id JAA06295; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:18:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by njb140bh2.ems.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:19:46 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: kerneld for FreeBSD Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:19:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i can see some interest, that is good :) the working prototype can be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~evmax/kerneld.tar.gz so far it can dynamicly load 1) char devices (by major or both major and minor) 2) filesystems (by name). please note that ``mount_xxx'' utilities will load appropriate module by it self. so this piece of code should be removed to make ``kerneld'' work 3) interfaces (by name). ``ifconfig'' is able to load appropriate module. again this should be removed TODO: - dynamic unloading in not yet implemented. - not all kld's can be unloaded (see PSEUDO_DEVICE) - need to find out a way to determine which module can be unloaded (ref count?) - ??? thanks, emax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message