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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:39:15 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel loader
Message-ID:  <20020221063914.U48401@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020221131541.GA6721@raggedclown.net>; from csfbsd@raggedclown.net on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:15:41PM %2B0100
References:  <20020221131541.GA6721@raggedclown.net>

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:15:41PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> Well, I tried this out in -hackers, and got a couple of mono-syllabic
> replies, but no-one answered my question. So I will try it here.
> 
> The kernel loader code has mechanisms to implant dependencies in the
> module code, e.g. if module A requires module B, then you can build
> this knowledge into module A.
> 
> Now I do not believe that if you load module A, then module B is
> automagically loaded as well.

[snip]

> I am looking for the
> same functionality in FreeBSD. I do not believe it exists.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this, or refute it.

I can confirm that module dependencies work fine on -CURRENT. Not so
sure about -STABLE. And if it does not, what the MFC status is.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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