Auto kernel module loading

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Tue Apr 22 11:38:39 PDT 2003


"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> > Yes.  My plan is to make devd deal with most of the problem...  You'll
> > still need to compile / device into your kernel, however.
> 
> Mmmm? The point is having a minimal kernel.ko. If you still have to
> compile the device in the kernel, it does nothing at all to reach the
> desired goal.

This is like claiming that you haven't made the kernel pageable,
if you can't page out the page-in code.  8-).

Anything in the boot path, necessary to get you to the point
where the kernel can actually load any remaining modules, must
be statically present in the kernel.

-- Terry


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