kern/81344: wrong reaction to loading modules compiled into kernel

Mikhail Teterin mi at corbulon.video-collage.com
Sat May 21 20:40:05 GMT 2005


The following reply was made to PR kern/81344; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mikhail Teterin <mi at corbulon.video-collage.com>
To: pawmal-posting at freebsd.lublin.pl (Pawel Malachowski)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, kris at freebsd.org,
	demon at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/81344: wrong reaction to loading modules compiled into kernel
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 16:29:46 -0400 (EDT)

 > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:50:55PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
 > 
 > > 	I forgot, I had the umass compiled into the kernel and tried
 > > 	to kldload the module after boot. Understandibly, it failed with:
 > > 		kldload: can't load umass: File exists
 > > 	on stderr, and the following kernel messages:
 > > 		module_register: module uhub/umass already exists!
 > > 		linker_file_sysinit "umass.ko" failed to register! 17
 > > 
 > > 	however, the module is not listed in the kldstat output and
 > 
 > see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/48759
 
 Thanks, Pawel, I just closed my PR!
 
 I wonder, what prevents the fix in yours from getting into the tree...
 It's been over 2 years...
 
 	-mi
 
 > > 	can not be unloaded:
 > > 		kldunload: can't unload file: Device busy
 > > 	and the folloing kernel message:
 > > 		linkerunload: attempt to unload file that was loaded by the kernel
 > > 
 > > 	I don't know if this problem is purely cosmetic or not.


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