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cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Subject: Re: kldload won't load
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On Monday 12 July 2004 21:30, John Polstra wrote:
> On 12-Jul-2004 Bill Paul wrote:
> >> Yesterday I built the ndis module (ndis.ko) but I can't seem to
> >> load it:
> >>
> >>    5 # ls /sys/modules/ndis/ | grep 'ndis'
> >>    kern_ndis.o
> >>    ndis.kld
> >>    ndis.ko
> >>    subr_ndis.o
> >>    6 # kldload -v /sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko
> >>    kldload: can't load /sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko: No such file or
> >> directory
>
> [...]
>
> > *sigh*
> >
> > When a kernel module doesn't load correctly, this is your cue to
> > run "dmesg" and look at the messages printed in the kernel message
> > buffer. That will tell you why it didn't load. Of course, nobody
> > ever remembers this, and apparently running xconsole is no longer
> > in vogue.
> >
> > This needs to be a FAQ.
>
> No, it needs to be fixed.  It's printing a totally incorrect error
> message, and nobody should have to use dmesg to find out what's
> really happened.

Hmm. Maybe the simplest thing would be to print the link errors using 
uprintf() instead of printf().