From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sun Mar 24 15:52:36 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42E7155E6F3 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:52:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208A98AE4A for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:52:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id CE920155E6F2; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ECDE155E6F1 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:52:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from mail.lariat.net (mail.lariat.net [66.62.230.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712F58AE49 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:52:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from Toshi.lariat.net (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.net@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lariat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA16104; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 09:52:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <201903241552.JAA16104@mail.lariat.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 09:51:50 -0600 To: Warner Losh From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: devmatch error message Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <201903232359.RAA05778@mail.lariat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 712F58AE49 X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of brett@lariat.net designates 66.62.230.51 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=brett@lariat.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.59 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.66)[-0.663,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[lariat.net]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.74)[-0.737,0]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.53)[0.530,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mail.lariat.net]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; IP_SCORE(-0.01)[country: US(-0.07)]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:19092, ipnet:66.62.228.0/22, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:52:36 -0000 Warner: Thank you! I thought that perhaps it might be useful to (for example) keep Ethernet port names the same when ports were added to the system. But if it's not, I'll just deactivate it. I do need to keep devd on, because I sometimes plug in USB memory sticks. --Brett At 06:51 PM 3/23/2019, you wrote: >On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brett Glass ><brett@lariat.net> wrote: >Everyone: >I've been building custom kernels for FreeBSD 12.0, and have noticed >a message on the console, during boot, that I haven't seen from prior >versions. It doesn't affect the operation of the system, but just for >the sake of cleanliness (and to make sure it doesn't cause trouble later) >I'd like to clean it up. The message is >devmatch: can't read linker hints file >Because I'm building a stripped-down kernel without klds or debugging >symbols in it, the kernel build doesn't produce a linker.hints file, >which I assume is what's causing the complaint. Is there a reason why >I should generate such a file? Or, if I don't really need to do so, >is there a way to suppress the message? > > >Disable devmatch. It's useless without klds. > >WarnerÂ