Checking for other kernel modules on load

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 12:24:29 UTC 2011


On 28 December 2011 12:21, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>
> On 28/12/2011, at 22:07, Chris Rees wrote:
>> Is there a simple way to check for existence of a driver?  I could
>> even check for /dev/sndstat, though that doesn't seem elegant to me...
>
> kldstat -v, but really /dev/sndstat seems simpler and just as effective.
>

Cheers-- I was thinking of a kernel-level function though.

cognet@ suggested using modfind("sound"), I'll go with that.

Thanks!

Chris


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