FreeBSD 6.3/amd64: ng_ipacct "Depends on kernel" ?? why? when?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > So, If I dont want to get error response "kernel: kldload:
> > /boot/modules/ng_ipacct.ko: Unsupported file type" in
> > /var/log/messages then I could remove /boot/modules/ng_ipacct.ko
> > and /boot/modules/linker.hints
> > last one containes:
>
> I think the 'Unsupported file type' *warning* is due to an odd issue
> with amd64 kernel module support, it is harmless (although annoying).

To clarify here..
There are 2 bits of code in the kernel for loading modules - they get 
run in a certain (compiler/linker specific) order. It used to be they 
were run one way but now it is the other way around. These bits of code 
print warnings if the object format is wrong.

So, one gets run on the module you want to load & fails (and prints the 
message you see). The next one is run and it understands that file type 
so loads it.

If it was a bogus module that neither understood then the kldload would 
return an error.

I believe a work around was applied recently so this is not so much of a 
problem any more.
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