> On Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 7:47 AM Alan Somers <asom...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 7:23 AM Justin Hibbits <chmeeed...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 08:21 Alan Somers <asom...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >> > > >> On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 6:58 AM Justin Hibbits <chmeeed...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 07:51 Alan Somers <asom...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >> >> > > >> >> Author: asomers > > >> >> Date: Sat Apr 20 12:51:05 2019 > > >> >> New Revision: 346441 > > >> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/346441 > > >> >> > > >> >> Log: > > >> >> Use symlinks for kernel modules rather than hardlinks > > >> >> > > >> >> When aliasing a kernel module to a different name (ie if_igb for > > if_em), > > >> >> it's better to use symlinks than hard links. kldxref will omit > > entries for > > >> >> the links, ensuring that the loaded module has the correct name. > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > Thanks! This should fix installkernel on my POWER9. > > >> > > > >> > - Justin > > >> > > >> What's the problem with your POWER9? Is that one of those msdosfs > > >> /boot systems? If so, I don't think this will fix it. msdosfs > > >> doesn't support either symlinks or hardlinks. Or is there some other > > >> problem? > > >> -Alan > > > > > > > > > Yes it is. Well that's a bummer then. I thought we faked symlinks on > > msdosfs, but on second thought not sure how well would do that. > > > > > > - Justin > > > > We should probably just remove the offending links on ppc, then. The > > only harm is that after upgrading, ppc users would have to replace > > fuse_load="YES" with fusefs_load="YES". > > > > We should only do the Intel links on those platforms that have legacy users > that need the old names. We should also only support the old names for one > release or so.
IIRC this was done so that the dropping of one of the drivers in ^head could be merged back to ^stable. It probably should of been killed in ^head after that fact, but if I recall the values correctly it was @head=12 and merged to @stable=11. We would need to dig those facts out, but yes, please, this link should be killed and cleaned up quickly as it creates almost as many problems as it solved. > Warner -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
