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Date:      Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:43:51 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r287934 - head/sys/boot/efi/loader
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On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 12:10 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 2 October 2015 at 11:04, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 08:29 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > > ... I'm confused about the "load it by hand" stuff in net80211.
> > > Why
> > > don't we just do the kldload at that point?
> > > 
> > 
> > I was talking about ieee80211_load_module.  net80211 module auto
> > loading doesn't work probably because kern_kldload() can't be
> > called
> > from certain contexts.
> 
> hm, can we do it from a taskqueue?
> 

Sure, but I suspect the caller might not want to sleep waiting for the
taskqueue to terminate.  I really haven't looked into it, sorry... 

It might be a better idea to check if the driver does software and/or
hardware crypto and load the appropriate modules at that time.  Then
check which ratesel module should be used and load that as well.  The
list continues :-)

-- 
Rui Paulo




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