svn commit: r260594 - head/sbin/kldload

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 13 16:23:10 UTC 2014


Author: bapt
Date: Mon Jan 13 16:23:09 2014
New Revision: 260594
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/260594

Log:
  Point the user to dmesg(1) to get informations about why loading a module did fail
  instead of printing the cryptic "Exec format error"
  
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/sbin/kldload/kldload.c

Modified: head/sbin/kldload/kldload.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sbin/kldload/kldload.c	Mon Jan 13 16:05:18 2014	(r260593)
+++ head/sbin/kldload/kldload.c	Mon Jan 13 16:23:09 2014	(r260594)
@@ -181,12 +181,22 @@ main(int argc, char** argv)
 						printf("%s is already "
 						    "loaded\n", argv[0]);
 				} else {
-					if (errno == EEXIST)
+					switch (errno) {
+					case EEXIST:
 						warnx("can't load %s: module "
 						    "already loaded or "
 						    "in kernel", argv[0]);
-					else
+						break;
+					case ENOEXEC:
+						warnx("an error occured while "
+						    "loading the module. "
+						    "Please check dmesg(1) for "
+						    "more details.");
+						break;
+					default:
 						warn("can't load %s", argv[0]);
+						break;
+					}
 					errors++;
 				}
 			} else {


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