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

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

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.

- Jukka.