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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:06:21 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=c3=a9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r311849 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm64/conf sys/conf sys/dev/e1000 sys/i386/conf sys/mips/conf sys/modules sys/modules/em sys/modules/igb sys/powerpc/conf
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From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>
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Message-ID: <f6022c26-ea27-1964-426a-dd61b66abe13@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r311849 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm64/conf
 sys/conf sys/dev/e1000 sys/i386/conf sys/mips/conf sys/modules sys/modules/em
 sys/modules/igb sys/powerpc/conf
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On 02/15/17 03:06, Roger Pau Monn=E9 wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 03:23:22AM +0000, Sean Bruno wrote:
>> Author: sbruno
>> Date: Tue Jan 10 03:23:22 2017
>> New Revision: 311849
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/311849
>>
>> Log:
>>   Migrate e1000 to the IFLIB framework:
>>   - em(4) igb(4) and lem(4)
>>   - deprecate the igb device from kernel configurations
>>   - create a symbolic link in /boot/kernel from if_em.ko to if_igb.ko
>=20
> This linking causes mfsBSD to choke when building an image from HEAD. I=
t tries
> to issue the following command:
>=20
> ${_v}${CP} -rp ${_BOOTDIR}/kernel ${WRKDIR}/disk/boot
>=20
> Which fails when finding the symbol link. I can send a patch to change =
that to
> -Rp, which would work fine, but wouldn't it be better to either complet=
ely
> remove if_igb.ko, or simply copy if_em.ko to if_igb.ko?
>=20
> I'm wondering if for example anyone strips down it's /boot/kernel/ manu=
ally, by
> removing unused modules, and what would happen if if_em.ko is removed b=
ut not
> if_igb.ko.
>=20
> Roger.
>=20
>=20

Well, this was my naive attempt to make upgrades for users to be
non-eventful in the event they have "if_igb_load=3DYES" in their
loader.conf instead of having it built into their kernel.

If the -Rp works, I'll add that instead.

sean


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