Auto kernel module loading

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Thu Apr 17 10:01:58 PDT 2003


"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> Plan once was for loader to identify the PNP IDs and load the
> appropriate modules. What the appropriate modules were would be infered
> from a configuration file.

That was a *long* time ago.  8-).

> I think Mike decided that wasn't such a good idea after all, but I
> wasn't much in touch with FreeBSD at the time, so I remember it only
> vaguely.

A huge amount of pain, for not much gain... but if you are
looking for a project, and don't mind the pain, then...

-- Terry


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