Re: Loading modules during startup

[Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Paul Goyette wrote:
> My solution has been to manually load the appropriate modules in my 
> /etc/rc.local file.  But it would seem to me that there should be a "better 
> way" (tm) to do this.
>
> I don't think that a single /etc/rc.d/modules script (with some sort of 
> configuration file) would necessarily fill the bill, since there might be 
> different dependencies (some modules might need to be loaded early, some 
> later).
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?

Add match info to the plist, and have the parent bus' driver load the 
appropriate module for you. Here's an example of what I mean:

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jmcneill/module-cfload.patch

Cheers,
Jared