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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:26:55 +0900
From:      "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org>,  freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Modular type GENERIC?
Message-ID:  <d763ac660802272226v2643b730xcb7163ca09f8027f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080227193234.GB54600@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <d763ac660802240226s250964efv1fd002196a90c110@mail.gmail.com> <20080225174410.GA81874@dragon.NUXI.org> <d763ac660802252056r3ba584d2lc3c7265901973835@mail.gmail.com> <20080227193234.GB54600@dragon.NUXI.org>

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On 28/02/2008, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:56:28PM +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>  > On 26/02/2008, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
>  >
>  > > As you've shown the magic is in the loader.conf.  I don't know a good way
>  > >  to handle this other than attempt to load every module (like Microsoft NT
>  > >  installer does) - and hope the probe of a driver that doesn't claim a
>  > >  device doesn't leave that device in a bad state.
>  > >
>  > >  Have you tried putting every module in /boot/kernel into loader.conf in a
>  > >  "load" statement?
>  >
>  > I'm going to try doing that tonight.
>
>
> Cool.  Please let us(me) know how it goes.

Is there some sane-ish way of auto-generating a list of modules given
a config file? The "device" statements don't match up with the module
name in all bar 4 or 5 places. Is there some chain of files I can
munge to match things up?



Adrian


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Adrian Chadd - adrian@freebsd.org



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