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.TH DYNLD 3 .SH NAME dynld \- load kernel module dynamically .SH SYNOPSIS .B bind -a #L /dev .PP .B /dev/dynld .br .B /dev/dynsyms .SH DESCRIPTION .I Dynld serves a directory containing two files that control dynamic loading of modules. When a module is loaded, .IR dynld (10.2)), checks the module's type against a type provided by the driver; the types must match. Currently the only supported module type is that of a device driver, .B Dev defined in .IR dev (10.2)). .PP The control file .B dynld can only be opened by the host owner (see .IR eve (10.2)). It accepts the following commands: .TP .BI "load dev" " name file \fR[\fP \fR[\fP tag \fR] dep ... ]\fP" Load a module for device driver .I name from the given .IR file . The optional .I tag is typically the MD5 or SHA1 hash of the file's contents, to identify a particular version of the driver. .TP .BI "unload dev" " name \fR[\fP file \fR[\fP tag \fR] ]\fP" Unload the device driver identified by the given .IR name , optionally qualified by the other parameters. .PP When read, .B dynld returns a list of the currently-loaded drivers, one per line, most recent first. Each line contain: the module's device type .BI # x used in .IR bind (1); its kernel address; its total text and data size in bytes; its .I name when loaded; the name of the .I file from which it was loaded; and its .IR tag . .PP .B Dynsyms is a read-only text file that lists, one per line, the symbols exported by the running kernel for use by modules it loads. Each line contains: the symbol's kernel address, its type signature, and its name. .SH SOURCE .B /os/port/devdynld.c .SH SEE ALSO .IR dynld (10.2), .IR a.out (10.6), .SH BUGS .I Dynld does not currently check that a driver is no longer in use before unloading it.