On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:42:40PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. >
So why, for example, if you say need a NIC driver that requires miibus, do you have to specify loading of miibus..this is really at the bottom of my question. Shouldn't a module dependency system load the required drivers first ? The reason this popped up in my mind, as I think I mentioned, is that the port drm-kmod, for DRI on certain cards, is meaningless without the "agp" module being loaded. So why doesn't kldload (I suppose I mean the program rather than the system call) work all this out ? Am I being dumb ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
