On Monday, October 25, 2010 3:19:26 pm Xin LI wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a simple patch that adds more meaning messages when kldload hits > ENOEXEC. > > Before patch: > > kldload: can't load geom_eli.ko: Exec format error > > After patch: > > kldload: can't load geom_eli.ko: Exec format error > kldload: Dependendent kernel module cannot be loaded from kern.module_path? > > Comments?
The reason I vote know is that ENOEXEC can mean several things. I thought you had a patch to catch the actual kernel error message and pass it back to userland. That would be a useful feature, but this message doesn't really help and can point people in the wrong direction if their error is due to a different problem. If you want to help the user, then I think a more useful approach would be to tell the user to check dmesg for error messages when kldload(2) fails with ENOEXEC. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
