NAME¶
kldload
—
load KLD files into the kernel
LIBRARY¶
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<sys/param.h>
#include
<sys/linker.h>
int
kldload
(
const
char *file);
DESCRIPTION¶
The
kldload
() system call loads a kld file
into the kernel using the kernel linker.
RETURN VALUES¶
The
kldload
() system call returns the fileid
of the kld file which was loaded into the kernel. If an error occurs,
kldload
() will return -1 and set
errno to indicate the error.
ERRORS¶
The named file is loaded unless:
- [
EPERM
]
- You do not have access to read the file or link it with the kernel. You
should be the root user to be able to use the
kld
system calls.
- [
EFAULT
]
- Bad address encountered when adding kld info into the kernel space.
- [
ENOMEM
]
- There is no memory to load the file into the kernel.
- [
ENOENT
]
- The file was not found.
- [
ENOEXEC
]
- The file format of file was
unrecognized.
- [
EEXIST
]
- The supplied file has already been
loaded.
SEE ALSO¶
kldfind(2),
kldfirstmod(2),
kldnext(2),
kldstat(2),
kldsym(2),
kldunload(2),
modfind(2),
modfnext(2),
modnext(2),
modstat(2),
kld(4),
kldload(8)
HISTORY¶
The
kld
interface first appeared in
FreeBSD 3.0.