On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Sean Bruno <sbr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On 02/15/17 03:06, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 03:23:22AM +0000, Sean Bruno wrote: >>> Author: sbruno >>> Date: Tue Jan 10 03:23:22 2017 >>> New Revision: 311849 >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/311849 >>> >>> Log: >>> Migrate e1000 to the IFLIB framework: >>> - em(4) igb(4) and lem(4) >>> - deprecate the igb device from kernel configurations >>> - create a symbolic link in /boot/kernel from if_em.ko to if_igb.ko >> >> This linking causes mfsBSD to choke when building an image from HEAD. It >> tries >> to issue the following command: >> >> ${_v}${CP} -rp ${_BOOTDIR}/kernel ${WRKDIR}/disk/boot >> >> Which fails when finding the symbol link. I can send a patch to change that >> to >> -Rp, which would work fine, but wouldn't it be better to either completely >> remove if_igb.ko, or simply copy if_em.ko to if_igb.ko? >> >> I'm wondering if for example anyone strips down it's /boot/kernel/ manually, >> by >> removing unused modules, and what would happen if if_em.ko is removed but not >> if_igb.ko. >> >> Roger. >> >> > > Well, this was my naive attempt to make upgrades for users to be > non-eventful in the event they have "if_igb_load=YES" in their > loader.conf instead of having it built into their kernel. > > If the -Rp works, I'll add that instead.
The module name is encoded in the module itself. The boot loader looks it up to see which module to load. Maybe there's a way to fix it so both load from one file? Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
