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 > _______________________________________________ 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"
