Differences between netgraph nodes in 4.x and 5.x'

Max Khon fjoe at iclub.nsu.ru
Tue Jul 29 04:53:08 PDT 2003


hi, there!

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:30:42PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote:

> And while you are listening, i can show u something else... =)
> 
> I have NETGRAPH in my kernel, and this is what i get when i
> try to load ng_ether the first time:
> 
> [root at newluxor root]# kldload ng_ether
> module_register: module netgraph already exists!
> linker_file_sysinit "netgraph.ko" failed to register! 17
> kldload: can't load ng_ether: Exec format error
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> it fails to load the node...

yes, kernel loader in RELENG_4 fails when some of the dependancies
are linked into the kernel.

> [root at newluxor root]# kldload ng_ether
> 
> while the second time it works... =O
> 
> [root at newluxor root]# kldunload ng_ether
> kldunload: can't unload file: Device busy
> 
> and if i try to unload it, it always says that it's busy:
> i think this is due to the inability to delete 
> an interface, isn't it?

/fjoe



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