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Date:      Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:00:10 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New item for -stable UPDATING...
Message-ID:  <20020203180009.GA6024@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>
In-Reply-To: <200202031742.g13HgZJ02146@arch20m.dellroad.org>
References:  <20020203.012725.77322724.imp@village.org> <200202031742.g13HgZJ02146@arch20m.dellroad.org>

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On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:42:35AM -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > : After updating a 4.4-stable system to 4.5-REL, this happened
> > : when trying to load linux.ko:
> > : 
> > :     link_elf: symbol seminfo undefined
> > : 
> > : and the load failed... yes I did follow the instructions in UPDATING
> > : relating to linux.ko.
> > : 
> > : Apparenly now linux.ko links in with the semaphore stuff.  The fix
> > : was to add 'options SYSVSEM' to the kernel config file.  Before it
> > : only included SYSVSHM (which is the only one of the SYSV* options
> > : actually required in order to run X I think).
> > : 
> > : Could we add a note about this to UPDATING?
> > 
> > Write one, and find out what the actual date of this new dependency
> > was added.
> 
> How's this:
> 
> 	Starting with revision 1.17.2.3 (5-Nov-2001) of
> 	sys/compat/linux/linux_ipc.c, your kernel must include
> 	'options SYSVSEM' in order to load the linux emulation KLD.
> 
> -Archie

If this dependency is indeed permanent, it should also be documented in
LINT, linux(4), and the release notes.  

Scott


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