Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:17:40 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kldstat causes kernel to print odd message Message-ID: <200801180817.49452.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200801171528.38186.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200801171410.38488.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200801171528.38186.jhb@freebsd.org>
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--nextPart2160971.GzGxA2LkL2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: > > Can anyone explain what the underlying problem is? (I am guessing > > some ordering issue where normally elf64_obj is called first so the > > other is normally never called..) > > amd64 uses link_elf_obj.c, all the other archs use link_elf.c, hence > the duplication. link_elf.c is used to load kld's that are ELF > shared objects (i.e. foo.so) where as link_elf_obj.c is used to load > kld's that are ELF objects (i.e. foo.o). I think you are going to > get this everytime you do a kldload on amd64 because it will always > try link_elf.c first due to compile order (MI files are ordered in > the makefile before MD ones), emit the warning, and then try > link_elf_obj.c. OK, that was my guess - the thing is that the last release I made didn't=20 do this and I don't have any special options in the release or=20 anything. I guess one option would be to put #ifdef amd64 around the error message=20 in link_elf.c. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2160971.GzGxA2LkL2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHj80F5ZPcIHs/zowRAtudAJ4uZkTBKNQN4j8XiaHna+F/UXCbqgCfa12v x9EwJ1eH89o/q8zRpSDtplQ= =uVp0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2160971.GzGxA2LkL2--
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