On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Ryan Stone <ryst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
I do similar stuff in cxgbe (if_cxl.ko and if_cc.ko exist solely to drag in if_cxgbe.ko as a dependency). In hindsight I wish I'd just added a list of ifnet names -> kld map to ifconfig instead. It would have been an ugly hack but much simpler. Regards, Navdeep > > 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"
