Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:54:00 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Robert Sexton <robert@tabby.kudra.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to best use kld's Message-ID: <20000707115400.Q25571@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000707143724.A60592@tabby.kudra.com>; from robert@tabby.kudra.com on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 02:37:24PM -0400 References: <20000707143724.A60592@tabby.kudra.com>
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* Robert Sexton <robert@tabby.kudra.com> [000707 11:41] wrote: > This question refers to 4.0-STABLE > > Whats the current thinking on kld's? It seems that every time I turn > around, another driver has moved into the kld tree. > > I generally hard wire all of my drivers, but I see now that even > network drivers are moving out into kld-land. Should I get with the > times and dynamic load things (it would simplify kernel config across > machines), or are the old ways better? If so, do I have to specify > the klds, or how to I trigger the load? I see that most of the > filesystems are now dynamic, which sounds good to me. Making something into a kld can dramatically reduce the devel time since as long as you don't panic or wedge the system you can load and unload instead of recompiling and rebooting. Also users will thank you for the same reason. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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