kldutils

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Sat Jul 30 22:55:16 UTC 2005


Hi!

I just uploaded/committed kldutils.  This package is the equivalent of
module-init-tools for kFreeBSD.  It's much simpler though.  It contains the
kld* module utilities themselves (which are to be removed from freebsd-utils
now), plus an init.d script to load module on startup.

It works like the Linux one:  early during boot, it processes each line in
/etc/modules and runs kldload with them.  The default file is empty.

If a package needs a particular module to be loaded (e.g. pf or nmap), it can
add this module to the file in postinst and remove it in postrm.

-- 
Robert Millan



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