Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:58:56 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: A question and a suggestion about loadable modules Message-ID: <20020219185856.GB1191@raggedclown.net>
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Hello, Someone suggested this may be the right list for this. - Has consideration in the loadable modules implementation been given to a module dependency facility, in the manner of "depmod" in Linux ? So that any module loaded will automagically load modules it depends on to run ? - I have reported in a PR a problem with drm_kmod from the ports. During my experiments at getting this to work I noticed diffferent behaviour when I loaded the agp module via loader.conf (or as a pseudo-device entry in the kernel configuration file), and when I loaded it via a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. In the first case subsequent loading of the "mga" (drm_kmod) module initialised successfuly, in the latter case it complained. This appears to show to me an unsuspected sensitivity to the point in the boot process a loadable module is loaded. Is this to be expected ? If so, then it should probably be documented. Thanks for your time. Please CC: me any reply. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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