call it "kernel object linker module framework" not just
"module framework". the latter is generic enough to
also mean the old ld(1) linked loadable kernel modules.

Make -f description actually use the word "force" so that it can be
found when searched for.

Fix Dt argument.

PR/52417: Edgar Pettijohn: modules.conf(5) not mentioned in related manuals

Add .An -nosplit.

Document the version modload appeared and authors.
Correct spelling mistakes.
Bump date.

Add cross-refs from modload(8) amd modunload(8) to modctl(2)

Quote path separator character.

Do not not look for modules in the current working directory first. This is
to prevent from accidentally loading ./module.kmod when we actually wanted to
load module from the system module area.

To load a module from a filesystem path, the module name must contain at
least on path separator character (/), to load a module from the system
module areas, the name must not contain a path separator character:

modload ./mymod.kmod # loads mymod.kmod from the curren directory
modload mymod # loads mymod.kmod from the system module area

Fix xref; module(4) -> module(7).

Xref module(4).

note module changes

Remove -P from -p section, not from -f one.

-p -P doesn't make much sense since no module will be loaded.

Add the MODCTL_NO_PROP flag to tell the kernel to ignore <module>.prop.

Add the '-P' option to modload(8) to set this flag.

Add a new [-d var] option which when combined with -p and -m will allow
you to delete vars from the existing <module>.prop file.

Sort options.

Add a "-m plist" option. This option will read in an existing
<module>.prop file and merge any options supplied on the "command
line".

This code will serve as the basis for in-kernel merging.

Sync usage and man page.

Sort option descriptions. Split usage in SYNOPSIS in two, since there
are two different methods of calling it.
Add arguments to option descriptions.

Add -p option which outputs a property list suitable for loading with a
module. This is in preparation for having the kernel load an optional
<module>.prop alongside a module, which is useful for passing options
to autoloaded modules and modules loaded at boot time.

Punctuation formatting nit.

Remove LKMs and switch to the module framework, pass 1.

Proposed on tech-kern@.

branches: 1.26.20;
In the DIAGNOSTICS section, document that mismatched LKM and kernel
versions will be reported to the console and to the system message
buffer.

And update documentation date.

New sentence, new line; improve grammar.

implement support for forced LKM load, which makes the kernel skip
the version checks, using new -f flag and LMFORCE ioctl

Hopefully the description in the manpage is discouraging enough so that
nobody would dare even _think_ of using forced loads. A warning
message is written to stderr when this is used, just in case.

.Nm does not need a dummy argument ("") before punctuation or
for correct formatting of the SYNOPSIS any longer.

'NetBSD.org' and some mdoc fixes.

Add support for using an optional linker script (/usr/lkm/ldscript if
found, and overridable by the -T option).

New sentence, new line. By Robert Elz with minimal fixes.

For loadable drivers, the 3rd argument is character device major and
the 4th argument is block device major.

Remove one item from BUGS section.

Generate <>& symbolically. I'm avoiding .../dist/... directories for now.

Improve author markup, use standard header.

Whitespace nits

Drop arguments of .Os.

sweep of my licenses (userland files w/o only my copyright) for
consistency. (no functional changes)

fix up NetBSD RCS Ids to match the standard, and the leading comment as
to match as well. No functional changes.

branches: 1.12.6;
add ELF support, mostly from joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) in PR#6149,
updated for the symtab support for a.out (non for ELF yet) and other cleanup
by myself. should work on the alpha as well as other ELF ports...
remove the ld(1) output by default, rather than leaving little binary turds
across the filesystem...

Invert the meaning of -s, from "don't load symbols" to "load symbols".
Document that this is expensive (and why) in the BUGS section.

branches: 1.10.2;
Add missing .El line.

Clean up SYNOPSIS formatting.

Allow modload to load symbols for use by DDB.

if xxxinit is not found in the module, look for <modname>_lkmentry as an
alternate entry point (used in provided modules). Mention this on man page
too.

* cleanup for WARNS=1
* getopt returns -1 not EOF
* use .Nm correctly

convert to new RCS Id conventions; reduce my headache

Bug fixes from John Kohl:
modload didn't honor its -p argument.
It also would destroy the input file when you didn't specify an output
symbol file with -o.

branches: 1.3.2;
Fix spelling error in Copyright notice

Fix spelling errors

add LKM man pages