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To: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
Cc: brian@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Revision 1.88 of kern_linker.c breaks module loading for diskless 
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:09:16 +0100
From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <20020425184846.Q795-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>, Harti Brandt write
s:
>the check for rootdev != NODEV introduced in rev 1.88 breaks loading of
>kernel modules from an NFS mounted root in diskless configurations.
>Dropping in gdb and printing rootdev shows -1 which is, I assume, NODEV.

Ah, that would explain a problem I saw recently on a netbooted box
where kldload only worked with full module paths. Could `rootvnode'
be checked for NULL instead?

Ian

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