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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:40:06 GMT
From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: GEOM_MIRROR shows up in kldstat even if compiled in the kernel if one tries to load it...
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>Number:         114532
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [geom] GEOM_MIRROR shows up in kldstat even if compiled in the kernel if one tries to load it...
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-geom
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 12 17:50:02 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    Mon May 14 14:38:32 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Mon May 14 14:38:32 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Evren Yurtesen
>Release:        6.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
IsporNET Internet Services
>Environment:
FreeBSD cp.domain.com 6.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #1: Sun Jun 10 20:32:31 CDT 2007     yurtesen@cp.domain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CP  i386

>Description:
GEOM_MIRROR shows up in kldstat even if compiled in the kernel if one
tries to load it...

options         GEOM_MIRROR             # Disk mirroring.
exists in kernel conf file...

From dmesg:
module_register: module g_mirror already exists!
Module g_mirror failed to register: 17

/boot/loader.conf
geom_mirror_load=YES

cp:/root#kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    2 0xc0400000 3cf774   kernel
 2    1 0xc07d0000 15634    geom_mirror.ko
cp:/root#

Thanks,
Evren
>How-To-Repeat:
Compile in GEOM_MIRROR into kernel by adding
options         GEOM_MIRROR             # Disk mirroring.
line.

Add geom_mirror_load="YES" into /boot/loader.conf

restart...
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-geom 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Jul 12 23:05:24 UTC 2007 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer(s). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114532 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ae 
State-Changed-When: Mon May 14 14:02:46 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  
Not a bug. This is a way how FreeBSD allows override 
a part of kernel with newly compiled module. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114532 
>Unformatted:
