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". -Alan _______________________________________________ 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"
