From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 3:50:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E5F37BA49 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 03:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12zdPB-0006WK-00; Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:49:49 +0200 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:49:49 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Coleman Kane Cc: Bosko Milekic , void , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000607124949.A25014@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000607013058.A32270@firedrake.org> <20000607014353.A10364@cokane.yi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000607014353.A10364@cokane.yi.org>; from cokane@one.net on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:43:53AM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-06-07 (01:43), Coleman Kane wrote: > I really don't think that stupidity is the issue, there are plenty of > devices which you use very discretely which may only need support > every once in awhile. Once again, I don't think you're giving me enough clues as to what you're aiming at. While I believe it's the sysadmin's choice whether to unload modules, it's also hir choice as to whether to run a daemon that'll auto-unload unused modules. That part of your idea I can understand. I'd imagine it'd work great as a port. > It might be nice to start running on modules regularly. It would also > be useful to be able to update your device driver while running > freebsd, without needing to reboot. You can already do this. kldunload the old module, and kldload the new module. Or am I missing something again? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message