Re: MODULAR: Add support for load-time options

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

Catching up on old mail...

On Feb 9, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Andrew Doran wrote:

> Cool. One of the main things that I'd like to see is the kernel  
> being able
> to load modules without intervention from userspace. When discussing  
> the
> module stuff with Jared one of his ideas was that we could include
> properties in the file system alongside the module, eg 'module' and
> 'module.prop' or whatever.

Package things up together as a "bundle".  Modules, at a high-level,  
are directories, that have a well-defined layout, containing code and  
other resources.  E.g.:

someDriver.kmod/
    someDriver
    someDriver.plist

The path name given to the loader would be someDriver.kmod, and it  
would take care of getting the underlying bits.

-- thorpej