bin/189249: Backport kldxref.c patch to 8.4-RELEASE, 9.2-RELEASE, 10.0-RELEASE

[andrew clarke]

>Number:         189249
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Backport kldxref.c patch to 8.4-RELEASE, 9.2-RELEASE, 10.0-RELEASE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 02 15:50:01 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     andrew clarke
>Release:        9.2-RELEASE-p4
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD blizzard.phoenix 9.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Apr  8 18:08:22 UTC 2014     root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
Please backport kldxref.c patch in PR 182098 to 8.4-RELEASE, 9.2-RELEASE & 10.0-RELEASE to prevent erroneous

"The following files will be updated as part of updating to XYZ:
/boot/kernel/linker.hints"

message when freebsd-update is used.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=182098
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-May/257947.html

>How-To-Repeat:
# freebsd-update fetch install
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.2-RELEASE-p5:
/boot/kernel/linker.hints
Installing updates... done.
# freebsd-update fetch install
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.2-RELEASE-p5:
/boot/kernel/linker.hints
Installing updates... done.

etc. loop.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: