listing all modules compiled into a kernel instance

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Mar 1 22:54:18 UTC 2011


On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Jason Helfman wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 12:01:48PM -0800, Carl thus spake:
>> 
>> I can explicitly include ucom in a kernel by adding "device ucom" in the
>> configuration file, in which case it would call DRIVER_MODULE(), right?
>> That would then make it appear in the "kldstat -v" list? So why is it a
>> driver when it's done explicitly, but not a driver when done implicitly?
>> That makes no sense to me since the functionality doesn't change. IMHO,
>> this is a bug that needs to be fixed, not just for ucom but any
>> implicitly included driver.
>> 
>> Who should submit a bug report?
>
> There was a documentation bug that was put in regarding the ucom device, and
> it was to update the device name in the documentation.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=155074
>
> I don't know if a PR is still required, but this may be worth a look first.

usb_quirk.4 appears to be a copy and edit of ucom.4.  The device name 
edit was missed, so it still referred to ucom.

I don't think this affects what you're talking about.


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