Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:29:55 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: docs/86733: [patch] Add using kldload as an alternative to compiling in gbde in your kernel Message-ID: <20050930142955.GC595@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <200509301018.11489.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200509300800.j8U80ZiG094804@freefall.freebsd.org> <200509301018.11489.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:18:10AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > Sure about that? It's been a while since I played with gbde (now it's > > just running) but I'm rather sure 'geom_bde_load=3D"YES"' in loader.conf > > works just fine. > > > > I only have a 7.0 handy that I can reboot, but there it works just > > fine loading gbde from loader.conf. > > Yes, it will work. None of the foo_load variables are explicit in the loader. > Instead, it walks all the environment variables and if any variable ends with > _load, it tries to load the kld named by the prefix. Thus, if you set > foo_load=YES, it will try to load foo.ko and will unset foo_load if it is > successful. > This is "documented" (use of huge quotes :) in "Module loading syntax example" part of boot/defaults/loader.conf Marc
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