Subject: Re: loadable device driver
To: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
From: Bharani Chadalavada <bharani.chadalavada@nexsi.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/30/2001 16:12:00
Hi Soren,

Thank you that was helpful.

But it is a bit disappointing to know that lkm is broken. Can you be more
specific? What part of it is broken?Is it broken only in netbsd-current or in
netbsd 1.5??

Thank you anyways,
Bharani.

"Soren S. Jorvang" wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:13:41PM -0700, Bharani Chadalavada wrote:
> > I am looking to implement a pseudo device as a loadable kernel module. I
> > looked at the man page for lkm and the /usr/share/lkm examples. I did
> > not understand the whole thing, but I wanted to know if there are some
> > examples out there which implement device drivers as loadable modules??
> > The standard distribution does not give any examples.
>
> Look for MOD_DEV in sys/lkm (netinet/if_ipl and vfs/coda).
>
> Also note that LKM's are currently broken on NetBSD/mips.
>
> --
> Soren