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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:50:01 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>,
	Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>,
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Subject: Re: kldxref broken, maybe?
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:03:53PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> > > This is a database that should be rebuilt at boot time too.
> > 
> > Are KLDs moving around between boots? Should klxref be moved to /sbin?
> 
> No.  It is not necessary for system recovery.  It is a hints database.
> The sysadmin can explicitly load kld files by pathname at any time.

I'm thinking of modules that get loaded automagically in the rc(8)
scripts.
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                         cjclark@jhu.edu
                                         cjc@freebsd.org

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