Re: npf module not loading?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

OK, this seems not to be a recent code change.

My previous setup had been running dhcpcd which auto-loaded bpf, so when 
blacklistd tried to auto-load npf, the required dependency was already 
loaded.  Now that I removed bpf, the dependency is exposed.

I have updated the npf module to explicitly list the dependency on bpf, 
so this should not happen in the future.



On Fri, 21 Jul 2017, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Did something change recently (some time in the last four weeks), to make npf 
> depend on bpf?
>
> With an update to yesterday's 8.99.1 I am getting
>
> kobj_checksyms, 974: [npf]: linker error: symbol `bpf_create' not found
> kobj_checksyms, 974: [npf]: linker error: symbol `bpf_destroy' not found
> kobj_checksyms, 974: [npf]: linker error: symbol `bpf_validate_ext' not found
> kobj_checksyms, 974: [npf]: linker error: symbol `bpf_jit_freecode' not found
> kobj_checksyms, 974: [npf]: linker error: symbol `bpf_jit_generate' not found
> kobj_checksyms, 974: [npf]: linker error: symbol `bpf_set_extmem' not found
> kobj_checksyms, 974: [npf]: linker error: symbol `bpf_set_cop' not found
> kobj_checksyms, 974: [npf]: linker error: symbol `bpf_filter_ext' not found
> WARNING: module error: unable to affix module `npf', error 8
>
>
> As near as I can tell, this is right before /etc/rc tries to start 
> blacklistd.
>
> It was working file with sources from 2017-06-28
>
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