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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:28:06 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com, hosokawa@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd pccardd.8
Message-ID:  <199906300128.TAA11229@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199906300012.JAA09257@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp>
References:  <199906300001.SAA10894@mt.sri.com> <199906300012.JAA09257@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp>

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> >> > 
> >> >   Modified files:
> >> >     usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd pccardd.8 
> >> >   Log:
> >> >   FreeBSD does supports LKM now.
> >> 
> >> Actually in -current, LKM's are deprecated, so this should be backed out
> >> (if it's what it appears to be).
> 
> Sorry, I don't wanted to mean the FreeBSD LKM in 2.x, because it said
> that,
> 
> Since
> .Nm FreeBSD
> does not currently support loadable kernel modules, any
> .Em irq
> specifications in the configuration file must match the
> .Nm config
> entry for the kernel.
> 
> Now we have kld, so I think that former sentence is not correct, and
> irq specification in the config file does not have to match the kernel
> config entry now.  Am I wrong?

Ahh, I understand.  I read 'LKM' as the previous 'kernel module'
system, not as a listing of a generic capability.  I would not have used
'LKM' to describe the generic loadable kernel module because it implies
a particular (deprecated) implementation.



Nate


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