Re: module weirdness

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :can't re-use a leaf (if_fwe_debug)!
> :module_register: module firewire/fwe already exists!
> :linker_file_sysinit "if_fwe.ko" failed to register! 17
> :fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> :        ch 1 dma -1
>
>     Very odd.  It should not have even tried to load the module since
>     you built the driver in.

	Hmm, I aware of this problem very well, although I do not have
	a patch for DragonFly *yet*.  But I did make a patch for fixing
	this issue for -CURRENT.

	The problem lies in sys/kern/kern_linker.c, because error
	checking is not done in some places, or it's done incorrectly.

	URL:
	http://people.freebsd.org/~hmp/patches/fix-retarded_linker.patch

	Regards,
	
		-- Hiten (hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)