linker.hints not being update for ARMs

Daniel Braniss danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Tue Nov 12 09:07:53 UTC 2019



> On 12 Nov 2019, at 10:30, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> 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?

by removing the old file :-)

> 
> thanks,
> 	danny
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