docs/86733: [patch] Add using kldload as an alternative to compiling in gbde in your kernel

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 30 07:00:38 UTC 2005


The following reply was made to PR docs/86733; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org>
To: Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org>
Cc: FreeBSD gnats submit <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: docs/86733: [patch] Add using kldload as an alternative to compiling in gbde in your kernel
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:58:50 +0200

 On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:16:01PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > --- chapter.sgml.old    Thu Sep 29 16:44:10 2005
 > +++ chapter.sgml        Thu Sep 29 17:02:02 2005
 > @@ -3543,6 +3543,25 @@
 > 
 >           <para>Reboot into the new kernel.</para>
 >         </step>
 > +
 > +    <step>
 > +        <title>Load gbde(4) support using
 > +        <application>kldload</application>
 > +        </title>
 > +
 > +        <para>An alternative to recompiling your kernel is to use
 > +            <application>kldload</application> to load the gbde(4)
 > +            kernel module dynamically.
 > +            <screen>&prompt.root;
 > +                <userinput>kldload geom_bde
 > +                </userinput>
 > +            </screen>
 > +        </para>
 > +
 > +        <para>At this time there is no option in
 > +            <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>
 > +            to load the kernel module at boot time
 > +        </para>
 >        </procedure>
 >      </sect2>
 >
 
 Hello,
 
 Since you submit PRs from time to time, you should have a look to the
 FDP primer; it's impossible for us to use your patch like this (missing
 tags, missing punctuation, mix of inline and block elements, wrong
 "wrap-lines", indentation issues, misuse of SGML tags).
 
 Marc



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