1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Chris Costello 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.Dd March 3, 1999 27.Dt KLDLOAD 2 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm kldload 31.Nd load KLD files into the kernel 32.Sh LIBRARY 33.Lb libc 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.In sys/linker.h 36.Ft int 37.Fn kldload "const char *file" 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Fn kldload 41system call 42loads a kld file into the kernel using the kernel linker. 43.Sh RETURN VALUES 44The 45.Fn kldload 46system call 47returns the fileid of the kld file which was loaded into the kernel. 48If an error occurs, 49.Fn kldload 50will return -1 and set 51.Va errno 52to indicate the error. 53.Sh ERRORS 54The named file is loaded unless: 55.Bl -tag -width Er 56.It Bq Er EPERM 57You do not have access to read the file or link it with the kernel. 58You should be the root user to be able to use the 59.Nm kld 60system calls. 61.It Bq Er EFAULT 62Bad address encountered when adding kld info into the kernel space. 63.It Bq Er ENOMEM 64There is no memory to load the file into the kernel. 65.It Bq Er ENOENT 66The file was not found. 67.It Bq Er ENOEXEC 68The file format of 69.Fa file 70was unrecognized. 71.It Bq Er EEXIST 72The supplied 73.Fa file 74has already been loaded. 75.El 76.Sh SEE ALSO 77.Xr kldfind 2 , 78.Xr kldfirstmod 2 , 79.Xr kldnext 2 , 80.Xr kldstat 2 , 81.Xr kldsym 2 , 82.Xr kldunload 2 , 83.Xr modfind 2 , 84.Xr modfnext 2 , 85.Xr modnext 2 , 86.Xr modstat 2 , 87.Xr kld 4 , 88.Xr kldload 8 89.Sh HISTORY 90The 91.Nm kld 92interface first appeared in 93.Fx 3.0 . 94