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Re: New driver installation and restart

On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 12:11 PM, Andre John Mas wrote:

Hi,

Darwin is meant to be a dynamic system, yet when it comes to installing
device drivers a restart is required for the system to realise to
be able to use the driver. Apart from forcibly loading the kext with
'kextload' couldn't the system be asked to rescan for new kexts?

This is not true. You can install a driver and use it without rebooting. For a static piece of hardware, like a PCI card, adding its driver after boot will require the use of kextload, of course. In the case of something like PCCard, where the device can by dynamically added to the system, you just install first, and then add the card. It Will Just Work. Theoretically, at any rate :-}.

There's no reason that your installer can't invoke kextload as part of a post-install script.

Regards,

Justin

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