cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 i386_module.c

[Hiten Pandya]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:27:32PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Trying to kldload something that is already present in the kernel
> > either fails or results in a kernel panic.  If you are already
> > rebooting to test it, then you might as well build a new kernel
> > as a new module each time.
> 
> I thought there were patches posted to CURRENT to address this
> issue ? Nobody seems to have them comitted, unfortunatly.

	It seems, that loading something at boot time would create such
	an issue; but at run time, if you try to kldload something which
	is already present in the kernel, than it errors out.

	I recently posted a workaround to re@ for fixing the case where
	multiple modules of the same type with different filenames could
	be loaded and the machine could go boom; but it seems that the
	kern_linker.c code is a little messed up in its current state,
	so there are more cleanups required to be done before such
	workaround/fix can be committed.

	Cheers.
	
		-- Hiten (hmp at FreeBSD.ORG)