Re: filemon

On 30 July 2024 5:38:57 pm AWST, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:
>On 30/07/2024 11:10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> Gary Jennejohn <garyj@gmx.de> writes:
>
>[..]
>
>>> I also load it from /boot/loader.conf using filemon_load="YES"
>> 
>> This does cause the module to be loaded at boot time, but it's slower
>> than loading it later, and it increases memory fragmentation.  A better
>> option is to include "filemon" in the kld_list variable in /etc/rc.conf
>> or /etc/rc.conf.d/kld.  For instance,
>> 
>>      % cat /etc/rc.conf.d/kld/filemon
>>      kld_list="${kld_list} filemon"
>
>Does this also apply today? I recently read from someone on a mailing list that the kld_list in rc.conf is no longer needed, that any problems it used to solve are solved, and that the preferred way is to load everything from loader.conf.

Was it the following mail from Warner on a relates commit?

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-src-main/2024-May/024029.html

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