devmatch: Malformed NOMATCH string: '$'

[Mark Millard]

On 2018-Jun-30, at 4:21 PM, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 05:07:06PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>> See UPDATING. I fixed this.
>> 
> I'm halfway between chicken and egg at the moment and can't look yet. 
> Will it keep until I can checkout  a source tree? There may be quite
> a few reboots in the meantime.
> 
> . . .

I think Warner L. was referring to ( I looked at UPDATING
from head -r335812 but this entry is older ):

20180530:
        The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll
        need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding
        lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will
        not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch.

If I understand right, having devinfo and devmatch not working is
not necessarily a status of being fundamentally broken overall.
(Just less automatic?) But I've never had to deal with the messages.

> . . .
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 4:18 PM, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> In booting up a new snapshot for the rpi3 dated June 28 a message on the
>>> console says
>>> devmatch: Malformed NOMATCH string: '$'
>>> which repeats perhaps twenty times and then goes away.
>>> 
>>> From the man page it seems fairly harmless. Is this correct?


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