Loading uart module fails

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 19 13:23:52 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:08:10 am Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:25:38 -0500
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Oh, the uart[01] devices already exist.  I suspect if you removed the
> > hints from /boot/device.hints and then kldloaded uart you would be
> > ok.  I think this is an "old" bug that might also be in 8.x.
> 
> I'm running -CURRENT from a couple of weeks ago so it if it's an old
> bug it apparently hasn't been fixed yet.

Yes, I don't think it is fixed, and I think 8.x is likely broken in this 
regard as well.  Can you verify that removing the hints "fixes" the issue?

-- 
John Baldwin


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