5.1-RELEASE TODO

[Michael Edenfield]

* Lars Eggert <larse at ISI.EDU> [030513 12:52]:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> >I'm unable to reproduce this; kldload refuses to load a module which
> >is already present, and if you try to preload a driver which is
> >compiled into the kernel, the kernel will refuse to register it.
> 
> I've seen panics like this happen with loading such duplicate modules 
> via /boot/loader.conf (i.e. not with kldload from the console.) Is this 
> what you mean by "preload"?
> 
> It doesn't happen for all modules, but it does for some. I think I 
> remember random.ko being one that caused problems, but I'm not sure, and 
> can't test right now (away from the machine).

Yes, it still happens.  If 'device random' is in the kernel and 
'random_load="YES"' in loader.conf then your machine panics on boot.  
I uncommented one too many lines in my kernel config yesterday and got 
bitten by this once again.

--Mike

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