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Subject: Re: KLD: program.ko: depends of kernel - no avaiable
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <ed8027db0901200821g4f78beeek1d6a4b489587892@mail.gmail.com>
>            "Jacky Oh" <assaulter0x80@gmail.com> writes:
> : Hi,
> :
> : I'm writing a syscall module and he compiles well but at load time, kldload
> : shows:
> :
> : KLD: program.ko: depends of kernel - no avaiable
> :
> : anyone know something about this?
>
> Yes.  rebuild the kernel and modules to have the same __FreeBSD_version

It would be nice if the kernel linker included version numbers, both expected 
and found, in these messages.  Unfortunately, this code is rather 
well-abstracted, and the specific version numbers are rather inaccessible at 
the point where the error message is printed.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge