On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:43:13AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > I encountered a strange bug when I was "trimming" the GENERIC FreeBSD > RELEASE-8.0 kernel to omit drivers for hardware that would not be used on one > target platform. I removed all of the USB Ethernet drivers except for "udav" > (Davicom USB Ethernet) and tried to rebuild the kernel. The build stopped at > the point where the kernel was linked, reporting undefined references in the > file /sys/usb/net/if_udav.c to "uether_pause", "uether_ifdetach", > "uether_getmii", and other routines with similar names. I discovered that > these functions are defined in the file usb_ethernet.c, which is in the same > directory as if_udav.c.
Missing symbols are almost always the sign of a missing "device" directive inside of the kernel configuration file. In this case, they're part of sys/dev/usb/net/usb_ethernet.[ch], which should be being built. You absolutely need to include the following devices in addition to "device udav": device ether device miibus I assume you did leave "device usb" and related pieces (meaning lines around that area) intact. Keeping it simple: can we see your kernel configuration file in its entirety? It isn't included in the PR, nor in this Email. > More experimentation seems to indicate that the GENERIC kernel builds by sheer > luck, due to an odd quirk in the "config" utility. I haven't used "config" since the early 3.x days. I'm certain "make buildkernel" and friends relies on it, but configuring a kernel + building a kernel is a lot simpler now. Read /usr/src/Makefile, starting with the line "For individuals wanting to upgrade their sources". The steps there are accurate. I don't think parenthesis are the core of the problem, given that there are many other devices in /sys/conf/files which utilise said method. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
