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From: Thomas Seck <tmseck@netcologne.de>
Subject: Re: kern/29626: ifconfig causes kernel panic in 4.4-PRERELEASE
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The following reply was made to PR kern/29626; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Seck <tmseck@netcologne.de>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/29626: ifconfig causes kernel panic in 4.4-PRERELEASE
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:21:04 +0200

 * Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org):
 
 > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 07:03:58PM +0200, Thomas Seck wrote:
 > 
 > > I just generated a panic with a -STABLE system as of July 12, 2003 by
 > > loading if_rl on top of a kernel with support for rl(4) compiled in.
 > 
 > That's the real problem here, I think.  This is normally supposed to fail.
 
 Just to be clear: the problem arises when preloading a module via the
 loader, not via kldload.
 
 It definitely "worked" (or the loading of the module silently failed)
 with 4.3 and before and broke during the 4.4-prerelease cycle.  I did
 unfortunately not have the time to identify the culprit.
 
 Regards,
 -- 
 Thomas Seck