In the last episode (Feb 20), Cliff Sarginson said: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:58:09PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 19), Cliff Sarginson said: > > > 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 ? > > > > See the module(9) and MODULE_DEPEND(9) manpages. > > > Ok, well the facility exists I see. > Is it used ?
Yes. $ cd /sys $ grep MODULE_DEPEND **/*.c | wc -l 137 $ NIC drivers sometimes require miibus, USB drivers require usb, SCSI card drivers require cam, etc. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message