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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys kernel.h
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From: "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 1998 19:54:16 -0400
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I like the model that I lump a bunch of files into a "module" and then
the module initializes a bunch of "services/resources".

Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> writes:

> This is directly addressed by the KLD system.  The terminology is that a
> 'file' (ELF or a.out) is loaded by the kernel linker.  The file contains a
> number of 'modules', each of which is initialised and has an event handler
> (similar to lkmdispatch).  The kernel in many ways is a file which
> contains all the statically linked modules.


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