Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/x86/x86

[Warner Losh <imp%bsdimp.com@localhost>]

On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 08:49:39AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:39 AM, Jared McNeill wrote:
>>> I would argue that any manually loaded module shouldn't be autounloaded. 
>>> What do you think about flagging modules as autoloaded and only 
>>> autounloading the autoloaded ones?
>> 
>> If I "manually" load a dozen drivers at boot because I have a dozen
>> different boards with different devices.  I'd kinda like the system to
>> "automatically" figure out what isn't needed and unload those drivers.
> 
> The general idea here probably is that you shouldn't actually load manually
> all those drivers, but the system should be able to autoload modules specific
> to your hardware. But we are not there yet. And AFAIR, neither is FreeBSD.

That's true.  It is a hard problem that people have been working around by 
manually loading things. :)

Warner