There's also the issue that running "ifconfig igb0 blah" during startup will cause if_igb to be automatically loaded by ifconfig.
I guess we could add a dummy if_igb.ko that just has a dependency on if_em.ko On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > 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"
