r205511 - ipfw.ko has unresolved symbols

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:48:07AM -0400, Alexander Wittig wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Since the r205511 commit to 8-Stable my kernel can't load ipfw.ko any 
> more. The error message in dmsg is:
> 
> kernel: link_elf_obj: symbol ipfw_dyn_attach undefined
> kernel: linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
> 
> A quick Google search for the first line brings up this message from 
> last December 
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org/msg02276.html):
> 
> >On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:31:32PM -0500, David Horn wrote:
> >>  I am seeing a kldload failure for ipfw.ko after the latest -current 
> >commits
> >>  (fails for r200580 - r200633 inclusive) for ipfw:
> >>
> >>  link_elf_obj: symbol ipfw_dyn_attach undefined
> >
> >not surprising, as i forgot to put the new filenames in the Makefile
> >for the module, and buildworld does not (and cannot) complain about
> >unresolved symbols.
> >
> >Just committed a fix in r200636
> >
> >thanks
> >luigi
> >   
> 
> Is it possible that there is the same issue with this commit?

definitely yes. thanks for the reminder.

cheers
luigi