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Date:      Fri, 05 Apr 2019 21:38:53 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <crees@bayofrum.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Chris Rees <chris@rees.space>,  freebsd-rc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r342389 - head/share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <1A8A6650-A498-465C-A3EF-F82BAC0B8F21@bayofrum.net>
In-Reply-To: <201904051928.x35JS6G4040777@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201904051928.x35JS6G4040777@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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Hi Rod,

On 5 April 2019 20:28:06 BST, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr=
.net> wrote:
>> Hello RC people,
>>=20
>> Konstantin has kindly reviewed the patch to fix load_kld behaviour,
>but would prefer that someone more familiar with RC give me approval to
>commit.  I haven't stripped any of the replies, so the conversation
>should be fairly easy to follow, though I'm happy to link to archives
>if anyone missed it.
>>=20
>> Please would someone review and approve?
>>=20
>> https://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/rc-kld_list-extension-2.diff
>
>Can we please either have this up in phabricator, or have permission
>to pull your diff into a phabricator review if you do not want to
>do it yourself.
>
>We do not need the comments and exchange of emails,
>just the diffs.
>
>http://reviews.freebsd.org
>

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18670

Appears I'd forgotten it was there- it would be great to have an 'RC' group=
 to review in phabricator.

Cheers,

Chris=20

>
>> Thanks!
>>=20
>> Chris
>>=20
>> On 25 December 2018 07:41:45 GMT, Konstantin Belousov
><kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 06:56:40PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
>> >> On 24/12/2018 16:50, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 03:34:57PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
>> >> >> On 24/12/2018 13:37, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> >> >>> On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 01:07:54PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
>> >> >>>> On 24/12/2018 11:23, Chris Rees wrote:
>> >> >>>>> On 24 Dec 2018 11:17, Konstantin Belousov
><kostikbel@gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>     On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 10:47:48AM +0000, Chris Rees
>wrote:
>> >> >>>>>     > Author: crees (doc,ports committer)
>> >> >>>>>     > Date: Mon Dec 24 10:47:48 2018
>> >> >>>>>     > New Revision: 342389
>> >> >>>>>     > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342389
>> >> >>>>>     >
>> >> >>>>>     > Log:
>> >> >>>>>     >?? Clarify kld_list format
>> >> >>>>>     >??
>> >> >>>>>     >?? PR: docs/234248
>> >> >>>>>     >?? Submitted by: David Fiander
>> >> >>>>>     >?? Submitted by: Miroslav Lachman
>> >> >>>>>     >
>> >> >>>>>     > Modified:
>> >> >>>>>     >?? head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
>> >> >>>>>     >
>> >> >>>>>     > Modified: head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
>> >> >>>>>     >
>> >> >>>>>=20=20=20=20
>>
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>> >> >>>>>     > --- head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 Mon Dec 24 06:14:32
>> >2018
>> >> >>>>>     (r342388)
>> >> >>>>>     > +++ head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 Mon Dec 24 10:47:48
>> >2018
>> >> >>>>>     (r342389)
>> >> >>>>>     > @@ -248,12 +248,14 @@ Default
>> >> >>>>>     >? .Pa /etc/ddb.conf .
>> >> >>>>>     >? .It Va kld_list
>> >> >>>>>     >? .Pq Vt str
>> >> >>>>>     > -A list of kernel modules to load right after the
>local
>> >> >>>>>     > -disks are mounted.
>> >> >>>>>     > +A whitespace-separated list of kernel modules to load
>> >right after
>> >> >>>>>     > +the local disks are mounted, without any
>> >> >>>>>     > +.Pa .ko
>> >> >>>>>     > +extension or path.
>> >> >>>>>     I think both extension and path are accepted if
>supplied.
>> >> >>>>>     It is the behaviour described in kldload(8).
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> That's true, but the kld rc script adds .ko, so providing
>the
>> >> >>>>> extension will probably break, and it checks for existing
>> >modules
>> >> >>>>> using the provided name as a regex, so that will also fail.
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> I don't think that'd be hard to fix though, so I'll fix that
>> >and put a
>> >> >>>>> patch up for review later.
>> >> >>>> Having looked again, rc.subr uses kldstat -v, so the path is
>> >indeed not
>> >> >>>> a problem, but the extension is-- removing any extension from
>> >_kld will
>> >> >>>> ensure that it will always match correctly.? At the moment it
>is
>> >> >>>> fragile, because it will load correctly the first time but
>hit
>> >an error
>> >> >>>> if the user has put the extension in and the module is
>already
>> >loaded.
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> @RC people, does this look acceptable (I'll need approval
>> >please)?
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >https://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/rc-kld_list-extension.diff
>> >> >>> I do not quite see a point in the check for the module
>presence.
>> >> >>> Kernel already rejects already loaded modules (by module
>name).
>> >> >> True; this code predates the -n option to kldload.? Using that
>> >makes the
>> >> >> whole checking unnecessary.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> How about this one?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >https://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/rc-kld_list-extension-2.diff
>> >> > It looks reasonable to me.  I am not sure if we want to keep the
>> >options
>> >> > for load_kld for benefit of the third-party scripts, or not.=20
>E.g.
>> >we can
>> >> > silently ignore them.
>> >>=20
>> >> Yeah, my patch ignores them silently.? It has the added bonus of
>not
>> >> needing to sweep the ports tree, with all the version issues that
>> >> entails as the behaviour has slightly changed if the options are
>> >> necessary at that point.
>> >>=20
>> >> > How was this tested ?
>> >> [crees@pegasus]~/workspace/src/head% sudo sh
>> >> # . libexec/rc/rc.subr
>> >> # kldstat |grep cuse
>> >> # load_kld cuse4bsd
>> >> # kldstat |grep cuse
>> >> 15??? 1 0xffffffff818c3000 40a0???? cuse.ko
>> >> # load_kld cuse4bsd
>> >> # load_kld doesntexist
>> >> kldload: can't load doesntexist: No such file or directory
>> >> sh: WARNING: Unable to load kernel module doesntexist
>> >> # kldunload cuse
>> >> # load_kld -m nothing -e noop /boot/modules/cuse4bsd.ko
>> >> # kldstat |grep cuse
>> >> 15??? 1 0xffffffff818c3000 4c80???? cuse4bsd.ko
>> >> # load_kld -m nothing -e noop /boot/modules/cuse4bsd.ko
>> >> # load_kld -m nothing -e noop /boot/modules/cuse4bsd.ko
>> >> # load_kld -m nothing -e noop /boot/modules/cuse4bsd.ko
>> >> # kldstat |grep cuse
>> >> 15??? 1 0xffffffff818c3000 4c80???? cuse4bsd.ko
>> >I suppose escapes are something that your mail agent inserted and
>not
>> >the
>> >actual system output.
>> >
>> >The script looks fine to me, but I am not the right person to stamp
>the
>> >approval on the rc changes.
>> >
>> >> #
>> >>=20
>> >> It's rather a curiosity for me that cuse4bsd only loads as itself
>if
>> >> called by path, but it doesn't happen with any other modules--
>this
>> >was
>> >> just to prove that full paths and extensions work correctly as
>> >> intended.? My machine also boots fine.
>> >>=20
>> >> Can you think of any other behaviour I'd need to check?
>> >No, for me it looks good enough.
>> >
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