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34 .Nd kld utility functions
40 .Fn kld_isloaded "const char *name"
42 .Fn kld_load "const char *name"
44 These functions facilitate loading kernel modules from userland
49 function takes a name and returns a non-zero value if a module of that
50 name is currently loaded.
51 The name can be either the name of a module file
55 the same name without the
61 or the name of a module contained within that file
65 Only the latter will return correct results if the module is compiled
70 function is a simple wrapper around the
73 It returns zero if and only if the corresponding
75 call succeeded or returned
77 (signifying that the requested module was already loaded).
90 functions first appeared in
97 functions and this manual page were written by
98 .An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org .