8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

[matt]

On 02/17/12 07:12, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2012 16:05:42 Alex Goncharov wrote:
>> <== This is shocking to me: I have the /boot/kernel/snd_hda.ko but I
>> can't load and unload it -- apparently the sound support is in the
>> kernel now.
> Maybe there is a missing depencency towards sound.ko. Try loading that first.
>
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It's in the kernel in later versions of 9-CURRENT and in 9-RELEASE on.

You can't kldload or unload it because it's not a module, but part of
the kernel.
That doesn't preclude the presence of the file, I think.

'kldstat -v | less' should show you what's "in there".

Matt