Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 18:51:02 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devmatch error message Message-ID: <CANCZdfq2DoW67BUqsMXhQVdaYVrJZC3e7VG4RerBzp4txb563A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201903232359.RAA05778@mail.lariat.net> References: <201903232359.RAA05778@mail.lariat.net>
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote: > Everyone: > > I've been building custom kernels for FreeBSD 12.0, and have noticed > a message on the console, during boot, that I haven't seen from prior > versions. It doesn't affect the operation of the system, but just for > the sake of cleanliness (and to make sure it doesn't cause trouble later) > I'd like to clean it up. The message is > > devmatch: can't read linker hints file > > Because I'm building a stripped-down kernel without klds or debugging > symbols in it, the kernel build doesn't produce a linker.hints file, > which I assume is what's causing the complaint. Is there a reason why > I should generate such a file? Or, if I don't really need to do so, > is there a way to suppress the message? > Disable devmatch. It's useless without klds. Warner
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