Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:03:18 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Library routine to load a kld if it already isn't Message-ID: <20010804200318.D66860@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20010804133840.067FB3E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010804074928.A66860@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> <20010804133840.067FB3E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Adding error possibilities is a change in the interface, and shouldn't
> done lightly. Nonetheless, I agree with your idea in general,
> although the text you propose is inaccurate. It doesn't use
> modfind(2), it uses kldnext(2), kldfirstmod(2), modfnext(2),
> modstat(2), and kldload(2). Of all of those, only kldstat(2) should
> fail.
Sorry, I meant modstat(), not modfind() -- I listed just those two
functions since they're the only ones a failure of will result in the
code returning -1 as far as I can see.
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