Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:42:58 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> 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> In-Reply-To: <20030318172628.GA74853@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <200303172315.h2HNFr3k014861@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030318093349.GC700@sunbay.com> <20030318172628.GA74853@blossom.cjclark.org>
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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
> > >
> > > FreeBSD src repository
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > etc/defaults rc.conf
> > > share/man/man5 rc.conf.5
> > > Added files:
> > > etc/rc.d kldxref
> > > 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.
> > >
> > Why would we do this at boot time?
>
> 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.
>
> 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,"
>
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,
--
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