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Authored by des on Jun 20 2026, 1:18 PM.
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  • Centralize the usage message.
  • Document and enforce that -e and -m are mutually exclusive; previously, speficying both would result in only -e being applied.
  • If -e was not specified, and -m was not specified or did not match, fall back to kldstat -n file which will always work for modules that aren't built into the kernel.

This means the kld and ntpd scripts can now rely on load_kld to dtrt.

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