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KLD(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual KLD(3)
NAME
kld_isloaded, kld_load - kld utility functions
LIBRARY
System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)
SYNOPSIS
#include <libutil.h>
int
kld_isloaded(const char *name);
int
kld_load(const char *name);
DESCRIPTION
These functions facilitate loading kernel modules from userland
applications.
The kld_isloaded() function takes a name and returns a non-zero value if
a module of that name is currently loaded. The name can be either the
name of a module file (cpufreq.ko), the same name without the .ko
extension (cpufreq), or the name of a module contained within that file
(cpu/ichss). Only the latter will return correct results if the module
is compiled into the kernel.
The kld_load() function is a simple wrapper around the kldload(2)
function. It returns zero if and only if the corresponding kldload()
call succeeded or returned EEXIST (signifying that the requested module
was already loaded).
SEE ALSO
kldfirstmod(2), kldload(2), kldnext(2), kldstat(2), modfnext(2),
modstat(2), kld(4)
HISTORY
The kld_isloaded() and kld_load() functions first appeared in
FreeBSD 6.3.
AUTHORS
The kld_isloaded() and kld_load() functions and this manual page were
written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 February 18, 2006 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6