[haiku-development] Re: driver in user add-ons directory won't be loaded during boot phase

  • From: Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:25:43 +0200

Axel Dörfler schrieb:
Hi Colin,

Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx> wrote:
Another reason, leading to the conclusion that it might be a user add
-on specific issue, is the following output contained in several syslogs, too:

KERN: Could not load kernel add-on "/boot/home/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/net": Is a directory

This just means that the kernel detected a new file in a watched directory, and tries to load it as a driver (before realizing that this is a directory). The message is misleading, though, and this shouldn't even be tried for directories.

There is no solution to this phenomenon so far and I don't know whether this is intended behaviour. At least I didn't find any bug report about it. If this is a bug I go ahead and file it.

Filed in ticket #4638: http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4638
While the /boot/home/config/ kernel drivers will be faded out (probably even for R1), and replaced by /boot/common/, this is definitely a bug that deserves to be fixed.

Bye,
   Axel.




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