From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 20 23:40:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E0637B40A for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f8L6Zs628420; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:35:54 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:35:54 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Peter Wemm Cc: Warner Losh , Mark Peek , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kldxref broken, maybe? Message-ID: <20010921093554.B27714@sunbay.com> References: <200109210320.f8L3KJ713643@harmony.village.org> <20010921051922.7B3A938FF@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010921051922.7B3A938FF@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:19:22PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:19:22PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > In message Mark Peek writes: > > : Install a -current kernel on a 4.X or pre-kldxref (before 9/10/01) > > : 5.X system. I sent a note to Warner mentioning he might want to put a > > : comment about this in UPDATING. > > > > I'm just unsure how to describe it... > > It is actually non-fatal. It should probably be added to the list > of tools to build for making the kernel. > This is not enough -- it should be made a cross-tool, much like the gensetdefs in -STABLE is. The binary format produced is MD. If we don't, we should disable it (-DNO_XREF) for cross-builds. > It is probably worth having the rc scripts attempt to "refresh" it at > bootup as well.. ie, something roughly like this: > foreach $path (`sysctl -n kern.module_path | sed -e 's/;/ /`) > if (-d $path) > kldxref $path > endif > endfor Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message