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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:49:09 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Register a KLD module
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912181848330.30722-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991218105241.13829B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> I have looked at the KLD examples and found out that they boils down to a
> DECLARE_MODULE() macro with the subsystem given as SI_SUB_DRIVERS. Is
> there any reason for using this particular SI_SUB_DRIVERS? I see another
> example at http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/ that uses SI_SUB_EXEC.
> 
> Is this subsystem id really useful for KLDs? KLDs are loaded when we run
> the kldload command and the subsystem ids are sorted at boot time.

This is not quite true. The KLDs can be loaded by the bootloader.

Andrzej Bialecki

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