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.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd March 3, 1999 29.Dt KLDLOAD 2 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm kldload 33.Nd load KLD files into the kernel 34.Sh LIBRARY 35.Lb libc 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Fd #include <sys/param.h> 38.Fd #include <sys/linker.h> 39.Ft int 40.Fn kldload "const char *file" 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The function 43.Fn kldload 44loads a kld file into the kernel using the kernel linker. 45.Sh RETURN VALUES 46The function 47.Fn kldload 48returns the fileid of the kld file which was loaded into the kernel. If 49an error occurs, 50.Fn kldload 51will return -1 and set 52.Va errno 53to indicate the error. 54.Sh ERRORS 55The named file is loaded unless: 56.Bl -tag -width Er 57.It Bq Er EPERM 58You do not have access to read the file or link it with the kernel. You should 59be the root user to be able to use the 60.Nm kld 61functions. 62.It Bq Er EFAULT 63Bad address encountered when adding kld info into the kernel space. 64.It Bq Er ENOMEM 65There is no memory to load the file into the kernel. 66.It Bq Er ENOENT 67The file was not found. 68.It Bq Er ENOEXEC 69The file format of 70.Fa file 71was unrecognized. 72.El 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr kldfind 2 , 75.Xr kldfirstmod 2 , 76.Xr kldnext 2 , 77.Xr kldstat 2 , 78.Xr kldunload 2 , 79.Xr modfind 2 , 80.Xr modfnext 2 , 81.Xr modnext 2 , 82.Xr modstat 2 , 83.Xr kld 4 , 84.Xr kldload 8 85.Sh HISTORY 86The 87.Nm kld 88interface first appeared in 89.Fx 3.0 . 90