hasn't Michael Graff said ? ...
>
> As an experiment, I have worked a few hours on making some small
> portions of the kernel into loadable modules.  So far, I have kernfs,
> procfs, and msdosfs done.  I plan on adding others, including some
> devices, as time permits.  However, I thought others might be
> interested in seeing what I have so far.
>
> It was really _very_ simple to make these, so this is nothing
> spectacular.  Just something to keep from having to recompile just to
> add msdosfs support to a machine.  ;)
>
> To try this:
>
> 1)  get ftp://ftp.flame.org/pub/netbsd/lkm.tar.gz
>
> 2)  untar it somewhere.  It will create a subdirectory called lkm and
>     all extracted files will go in it. (I use /usr/src, but that may
>     be a bad place)
>
> 3)  follow the directions in lkm/README
>
> Please mail me suggestions, and (especially) fixes and more modules.
> Once I think this is clean enough, I'll send it in as a send-pr and
> see what happens.  :)
>
> One question which still needs to be resolved is where should these
> *.o LKM's be installed?  I'd think /usr/lkm would be a good idea, with
> the output (modload's -o option) in /var/run/lkm or something like
> that.
>
why not using the FreeBSD default: /lkm - you may also look at FreeBSD
- there are many things made as lkm's - and the sources are in
/usr/src/lkm - hope this helps

t

p.s.: using /usr/lkm you may get problems if you are mounting /usr via
nfs and needing the nfs lkm for this :-(
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