I've bumped into this with the vlan driver as well. I believe the fix is to patch ifconfig(8) so that it checks for "DEVICE" as well as "if_DEVICE" and skips the load if either is found. I don't believe this change is especially risky.
I'm still seeing this with -stable dated 26th September. It appears to be covered by bug number 55279. miibus and ed0 are both statically compiled into my kernel, and these devices are not mentioned in /boot/*
Despite this, the following boot time errors are reported:
module_register: module miibus/ukphy already exists! linker_file_sysinit "miibus.ko" failed to register! 17 module_register: module pccard/ed already exists! linker_file_sysinit "if_ed.ko" failed to register! 17
and kldstat reports:
-bash-2.05b$ kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 4 0xc0100000 2768c8 kernel 3 2 0xc092d000 e000 miibus.ko 4 1 0xc0940000 a000 if_ed.ko 5 1 0xc09b3000 15000 linux.ko
For full kernel/dmesg:
http://www.knigma.org.uk/~mkn/roys_error.txt
The problem appears to be that the ed driver module is named "ed" (as reported by kldstat -v), rather than "if_ed", causing ifconfig to attempt to load the module. Could this be corrected for 4.9-RELEASE please?
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