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Re: kernel extension


  • Subject: Re: kernel extension
  • From: Mike Fischer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:42:33 +0200

Am 23.06.2006 um 22:52 schrieb David A Rowland:

Am 23.06.2006 um 21:03 schrieb David A Rowland <email@hidden>:

StartupItems.plist

Should be "StartupParameters.plist" I think. That's what I use.


Right, my mistake in the email.

OK. I thought so but it might have been the problem ;-)


So your kext bundle is actually installed inside the StartupItem? Why not in /System/Library/Extensions/ ?

Apple strongly suggests the Library/StartupItems location for third party stuff. I'll follow the rules.

Do you have any reference where this is documented? I'm not suggesting it's not a good idea but until now the only way I saw to get a kext loaded at boot time seemed to be to install it in /System/ Library/Extensions. It never occured to me that a StartupItem might be used to load a kext.


Unless the kext is needed very early I guess it would work out fine that way though.

Another thought is that StartupItems seem to be depreciated in favor of the launchd mechanism. As far as I understand launchd though, this particular way to use StartupItems is not easily converted into something launchd could work with. There was a long discussion about a similar topic on the Darwin-dev ML a couple of days ago.


It turns out to have been a misspelling in my script, MyKext. With that fixed it does just what I want. Your comments here were very helpful. Thank you.

You're welcome. Glad to hear you've got it working now.


Mike -- Mike Fischer Softwareentwicklung, EDV-Beratung Schulung, Vertrieb Web: <http://homepage.mac.com/mike_fischer/index.html> Note: I read this list in digest mode! Send me a private copy for faster responses.

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