Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:04:35 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> Subject: Re: kldload: Unsupported file type Message-ID: <200801300904.35750.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200801301651.07643.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <479FE898.1030801@incunabulum.net> <200801301651.07643.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Wednesday 30 January 2008 01:21:06 am Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > Since updating to 6.3-RELEASE on two machines I see this message a > > lot. > > Hooray I am not alone! > I have a thread in stable called ' kldstat causes kernel to print odd > message' (not the best subject since it's wrong AND undescriptive), > message ID is 200801171410.38488.doconnor@gsoft.com.au. > > > It is printed whenever a kernel module is loaded. > > The modules load OK. Nothing special or different about them. > > > > It seems to be harmless, but any idea why it's started happening > > since the release? > > It is printed by sys/kern/link_elf.c - amd64 uses this for historical > reasons. > > The issue is that it is being called before the stuff in link_elf_obj.c > and printing an error, the kernel then tries _obj and it works. > > I tried #ifdef'ing out link_elf.c but it panicd my machine on boot and I > haven't had time to find out why. The kernel is a link_elf type object I believe, so you have to have it. -- John Baldwin
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