On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, David Laight wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:55:31PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > Why not do what FreeBSD does and have the f/w be a kld that you can
> > unload once you're done with it? It seems to me that this is a bit
> > cleaner than an alternate mechanism.
> 
> If I read that correctly it would involve rebuilting the lkm in
> order to try a different f/w.

Yes.

> 
> I have written enough downloaders (and downloaded s/w) to know
> that that is a complete no-brainer....
> 

Oh, to be sure. But a general mechanism is a security audit issue for
all of NetBSD- not just a per-driver/lkm issue.