Auto kernel module loading

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Apr 17 19:55:34 PDT 2003


In message: <3E9EB7DF.4040104 at tcoip.com.br>
            "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs at tcoip.com.br> writes:
: 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.
: 
: 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.

Yes.  My plan is to make devd deal with most of the problem...  You'll
still need to compile / device into your kernel, however.

Warner


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