Re: why null kernel module? why kernel listed in kldstat?

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > It's a typo in the default loader.conf, I guess. I'll fix it along with some
> > other stuff.
>
> I may misunderstand still...
>
> I think the loader.conf is probably correct, but the kernel object should 
> be called nullfs.ko?
>
> As it is now, I am confused because I never heard of null(4) for /dev/null 
> being a kernel module.
>
> Anyone have a nullfs(4) manual page?

I think the convention here is that the information related to the 
msdos.ko, null.ko, ext2fs.ko, etc. modules is on the respective 
mount_<blah>(8) manpage, e.g. mount_null(8).

Sascha

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