Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread David Fleck
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Quite simply, it *can* be used as a module. Your problems trying to > do that are probably pilot error; at a guess, you forgot to remove > NFS_ROOT from the kernel configuration when you removed NFS. You, sir, are a genius. Yes, that is exactly what I

Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:58:27AM -0500, David Fleck wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:53:31 + Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > > Mostly the program which uses the device. For instance, vnconfig a

Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Fleck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why, for instance, does my (4.6.2-RELEASE-p20) system have a nfs.ko kernel > module, and a line in /boot/defaults/loader.conf to enable this module, > but (apparently) no way to *use* the module? If I compile a kernel with > 'options NFS' uncommented in t

Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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Re: What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-22 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:53:31 + Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > probably wrote: > > Mostly the program which uses the device. For instance, vnconfig and > > mount will load the necessary modules because they are suppose

What determines if kernel modules are auto-loaded?

2003-09-21 Thread David Fleck
I'm trying to get a better understanding of how kernel modules work in FreeBSD - one thing at the moment I can't figure out is why some modules (e.g., cd9660.ko, usb.ko) will be automatically loaded when needed, while other modules (vpo.ko, snd.ko) are not. What causes the difference in behavior?