Re: git: 773c13c686e4 - main - kldxref: skip .pkgsave files

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:13:23 UTC
On 12/6/23 1:02 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 1:04 PM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/25/23 9:37 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> The branch main has been updated by imp:
>>>
>>> URL:
>> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=773c13c686e4b6ae9dbbc150b342b82c3f47d73a
>>>
>>> commit 773c13c686e4b6ae9dbbc150b342b82c3f47d73a
>>> Author:     Mina Galić <freebsd@igalic.co>
>>> AuthorDate: 2023-02-25 17:31:58 +0000
>>> Commit:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
>>> CommitDate: 2023-02-25 17:35:43 +0000
>>>
>>>       kldxref: skip .pkgsave files
>>>
>>>       This should help people transitioning from traditional setups to
>> pkgbase
>>>       experience a lot less friction.
>>>
>>>       We do this by skipping all files containing two dots.
>>>
>>>       Reviewed by: imp
>>>       Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/661
>>>       Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27959
>>
>> This restriction is too broad and omits all of the modern wifi firmware
>> klds from linker.hints, e.g.
>>
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-3168-29.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-7265-17.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-7265D-29.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-8265-36.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-Qu-b0-hr-b0-77.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-Qu-b0-jf-b0-77.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-Qu-c0-hr-b0-77.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-Qu-c0-jf-b0-77.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-77.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-cc-a0-77.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-83.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0.pnvm.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-so-a0-gf4-a0-83.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-so-a0-gf4-a0.pnvm.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-so-a0-hr-b0-81.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-so-a0-jf-b0-77.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-83.ucode.ko
>> /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0.pnvm.ko
>> /boot/kernel/rtw8723d_fw.bin.ko
>> /boot/kernel/rtw8821c_fw.bin.ko
>> /boot/kernel/rtw8822b_fw.bin.ko
>> /boot/kernel/rtw8822c_fw.bin.ko
>> /boot/kernel/rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin.ko
>>
>> all match this pattern and are skipped.
>>
>> I'm busy rewriting a bunch of kldxref to be a cross tool using libelf,
>> but I think here you want to probably revert this and just add pkgsave
>> to the list of "known bad" suffixes.
>>
> 
> Sure. Any reason to not just require .ko? Or do we have to index the kernel
> too?

We do index the kernel as well, yes.  However, we could probably get by
with "kernel" and ends in ".ko" as a valid set of files.  This would also
avoid bogusly warning about linker.hints not being a valid ELF file on
re-runs if you use -v.

-- 
John Baldwin