Brian Buhrow <buh...@nfbcal.org> writes: > hello Brad. I thought the idea behind modules was that you didn't need > to rebuild a > kernel to add devices to the ioconf table? And, in fact, under the old > module framework, that > is, NetBSD-5 and earlier, you could add devices and major numbers to the > table without having > to rebuild the kernel. If, in fact, I need to rebuild the kernel to add > device drivers to the > kernel, then I submit our module framework is fatally broken. So, I'll hope > that isn't the > case and proceed. If I figure out how to do it, I'll post here so others > won't have to climb > that learning curve using the same path. > -thanks > -Brian
My general experience seems to be that a recompile of the kernel is needed, at least when used in the manor I used it (adding a new module that used a static major number in one of the major files). I was bundling a module that would be added to src anyway, so the recompile wasn't a notable problem. The devsw_attach(9) man page implies that the major and minor number can be selected with that call, but I have never used it that way. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
