From owner-cvs-src Wed Mar 19 12:45:18 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C009237B401; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:45:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6092843F3F; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:44:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.8/8.12.8/Sunbay) with ESMTP id h2JKgw0J044565 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:43:06 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2JKgw71044560; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:42:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:42:58 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d kldxref src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/share/man/man5 rc.conf.5 Message-ID: <20030319204258.GA43908@sunbay.com> References: <200303172315.h2HNFr3k014861@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030318093349.GC700@sunbay.com> <20030318172628.GA74853@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030318172628.GA74853@blossom.cjclark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:26:28AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:33:49AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:15:53PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > cjc 2003/03/17 15:15:53 PST > > >=20 > > > FreeBSD src repository > > >=20 > > > Modified files: > > > etc/defaults rc.conf=20 > > > share/man/man5 rc.conf.5=20 > > > Added files: > > > etc/rc.d kldxref=20 > > > Log: > > > A new rc-ng script to build linker.hints files with kldxref(8) > > > automatically at boot time. Associated rc.conf(5) knobs and > > > documentation are included. > > > =20 > > Why would we do this at boot time? >=20 > My personal motivation is when I install a 5-{CURRENT,RELEASE} system > by building from RELENG_4, no linker.hints is created. This breaks > auto-loading of kld's which breaks the boot when it comes time to > mount NFS partitions. >=20 > There was some discussion on -current about this and the only comments > I got were ones like, "we need to do this," from peter@. Sorry if you > missed the thread there. The thread subject is "Create linker.hints at > boot," >=20 The actual bug here is that nfsclient.ko is not [sym]linked to nfs.ko. If we did this, mount(2) could automatically load the module, even without linker.hints. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and 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 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+eNZSUkv4P6juNwoRAoOJAJ0SGGAF3dMKgilCk+EeAWIxx0N3DwCfe1kN hz6MbpL77YcjKQXaW/idV9I= =C27b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message