linker.hints not being update for ARMs

Daniel Braniss danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Tue Nov 12 08:30:29 UTC 2019


hi,
well, at least for allwinner, even running /etc/rc.d/kldxref has no effect,
I noticed this when trying out a wifi dongle, 
...
	Starting devd.
	Autoloading module: if_rtwn_usb.ko
	warning: KLD '/boot/kernel/wlan.ko' is newer than the linker.hints file
	warning: KLD '/boot/kernel/rtwn.ko' is newer than the linker.hints file
…

the link.hints is indeed very old :
neo-000# ls -ls /boot/kernel/linker.hints 
224 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  228972 Jan  1  2010 /boot/kernel/linker.hints

and strangely, other modules loaded did not complain.

how can this be fixed?

thanks,
	danny


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