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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: kldload(2) and debug kernels
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 vze2ztys@verizon.net wrote:

> It looks like the kldload system call takes the name of the module you
> give it, like "ums", and just tacks on ".ko" and searches
>  in whatever the default paths are for kernel modules until it finds
> ums.ko.  Peachy.
>
>   But what about if you built your kernel and modules with debugging
> symbols added in?  When you install the new kernel, all the files have
> ".debug" tacked on to the end.  This seems to kill autoloading.  The
> most recent change to moused makes it incompatible with ums.ko.debug,
> too.

If you give a specific path to a module then it will load that module.


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