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| author | Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-01-13 16:23:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-01-13 16:23:09 +0000 |
| commit | 10c916252f20d41b6d29aa85feba8f337ebbff7f (patch) | |
| tree | 0f2e8ba32636cbf463264eaf1fca4cbd65936e9e /sbin/kldload | |
| parent | a0d53e0b384c1f7d63d0f7277a8adb594eec7230 (diff) | |
| download | src-10c916252f20d41b6d29aa85feba8f337ebbff7f.tar.gz src-10c916252f20d41b6d29aa85feba8f337ebbff7f.zip | |
Point the user to dmesg(1) to get informations about why loading a module did fail
instead of printing the cryptic "Exec format error"
MFC after: 1 week
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=260594
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/kldload')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/kldload/kldload.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/kldload/kldload.c b/sbin/kldload/kldload.c index 6e88546bd4e3..02b34cef2842 100644 --- a/sbin/kldload/kldload.c +++ b/sbin/kldload/kldload.c @@ -181,12 +181,22 @@ main(int argc, char** argv) printf("%s is already " "loaded\n", argv[0]); } else { - if (errno == EEXIST) + switch (errno) { + case EEXIST: warnx("can't load %s: module " "already loaded or " "in kernel", argv[0]); - else + break; + case ENOEXEC: + warnx("an error occured while " + "loading the module. " + "Please check dmesg(1) for " + "more details."); + break; + default: warn("can't load %s", argv[0]); + break; + } errors++; } } else { |