devmatch: Malformed NOMATCH string: '$'

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 6:32 PM, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>

No, I was referring to... Hmmm, doesn't seem to have been committed.

20180628:
        r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However,
etc/devd/devmatch.conf
        needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with
r335763
        and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the
installed file.

Just pushed it. sorry for the confusion.

Warner


> > . . .
> >>
> >> 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?
>
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
> ( dsl-only.net went
> away in early 2018-Mar)
>
>