devmatch error message

[Brett Glass]

Warner:

Thank you! I thought that perhaps it might be useful to (for 
example) keep Ethernet port names the same when ports were added to 
the system. But if it's not, I'll just deactivate it. I do need to 
keep devd on, because I sometimes plug in USB memory sticks.

--Brett

At 06:51 PM 3/23/2019, you wrote:



>On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brett Glass 
><<mailto:brett at lariat.net>brett at 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.
>
>WarnerÂ