Can't load NFS server module with a custom 8.0 kernel

[Boris Kochergin]

Rick Macklem wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Boris Kochergin wrote:
>
>> Ahoy. I didn't get any replies to this on -net, so I thought I'd try 
>> here. I have an 8.0-RELEASE-p2/amd64 machine running a custom kernel 
>> (configuration file at http://acm.poly.edu/~spawk/ACM) and I am 
>> unable to use the NFS server module on it. After loading the nfssvc 
>> module, attempting to load the nfsserver module fails and the 
>> following appears in dmesg:
>>
>> Feb  3 19:35:54 acm kernel: link_elf_obj: symbol svcpool_create 
>> undefined
>> Feb  3 19:35:54 acm kernel: linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
>>
>> I see a reference to the problem at 
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2008-November/001025.html. 
>> Am I missing something or has it never gotten resolved? Thanks.
>>
> I don't know diddly about the module loading stuff, but you could try
> this patch. (svcpool_create() is a part of the krpc, which is listed
> as a module that nfsserver depends on)
>
> rick
> --- untested patch for nfs_srvsubs.c ---
> --- nfsserver/nfs_srvsubs.c.sav    2010-02-18 14:41:52.000000000 -0500
> +++ nfsserver/nfs_srvsubs.c    2010-02-18 14:42:12.000000000 -0500
> @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@
>      nfsrv_modevent,
>      NULL,
>  };
> -DECLARE_MODULE(nfsserver, nfsserver_mod, SI_SUB_VFS, SI_ORDER_ANY);
> +DECLARE_MODULE(nfsserver, nfsserver_mod, SI_SUB_VFS, SI_ORDER_FIRST);
>
>  /* So that loader and kldload(2) can find us, wherever we are.. */
>  MODULE_VERSION(nfsserver, 1);
Thanks for the patch, but the problem persists with it, I'm afraid.

-Boris