1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Doug Rabson 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.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd April 25, 1997 29.Dt KLDLOAD 8 30.Os FreeBSD 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm kldload 33.Nd load a file into the kernel 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm kldload 36.Op Fl v 37.Ar filename 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Nm 41loads the file 42.Ar filename.ko 43into the kernel using the kernel linker. 44.Pp 45The following option is available: 46.Bl -tag -width indent 47.It Fl v 48Be more verbose. 49.El 50.Sh FILES 51.Bl -tag -width /modules -compact 52.It Pa /modules 53directory containing loadable modules. Modules must be have an extention of .ko 54.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 55The 56.Nm 57utility exits with a status of 0 on success 58and with a nonzero status if an error occurs. 59.Sh SEE ALSO 60.Xr kldload 2 , 61.Xr kldstat 8 , 62.Xr kldunload 8 63.Sh HISTORY 64The 65.Nm 66command first appeared in 67.Fx 3.0 , 68replacing the 69.Xr lkm 4 70interface. 71.Sh AUTHORS 72.An Doug Rabson Aq dfr@FreeBSD.org 73