kld_load(3)

kld_load3

Kld utility functions

Part of kld(3).

Usage

#include <libutil.h>

int

kld_isloaded(const char *name);

int

kld_load(const char *name);

Library

System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

Overview

These functions facilitate loading kernel modules from userland applications.

The kld_isloaded() function takes a name and returns a non-zero value if a module of that name is currently loaded. The name can be either the name of a module file (cpufreq.ko), the same name without the .ko extension (cpufreq), or the name of a module contained within that file (cpu/ichss). Only the latter will return correct results if the module is compiled into the kernel.

The kld_load() function is a simple wrapper around the kldload(2) function. It returns zero if and only if the corresponding kldload() call succeeded or returned EEXIST (signifying that the requested module was already loaded).

Releases

46 releases since FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 6.3
  2. 6.4
  3. 7.0
  4. 7.1
  5. 7.2
  6. 7.3
  7. 7.4
  8. 8.0
  9. 8.1
  10. 8.2
  11. 8.3
  12. 8.4
  13. 9.0
  14. 9.1
  15. 9.2
  16. 9.3
  17. 10.0
  18. 10.1
  19. 10.2
  20. 10.3
  21. 10.4
  22. 11.0
  23. 11.1
  24. 11.2
  25. 11.3
  26. 11.4
  27. 12.0
  28. 12.1
  29. 12.2
  30. 12.3
  31. 12.4
  32. 13.0–13.2
  33. 13.3–13.5
  34. 14.0–16.0

History

The kld_isloaded() and kld_load() functions first appeared in FreeBSD 6.3.

Authors

The kld_isloaded() and kld_load() functions and this manual page were written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.