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Subject: Re: Broken module loading and kernel dependencies
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 20:44:00 -0400
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> > If I did kldload if_rl it would pick up the kingston but not the
> > realtek, if I loaded if_dc it would pick up the kingston and
> > then I would try to load if_rl and it would tell me its already
> > loaded and wouldn't pick up the realtek, but I could not get
> > both nic's to work until I compiled them into the kernel.
> >
> > I imagine this is because of 'device miibus', a dependency of both.
>
> but isn't that the point of the kld miibus.ko?

Yes, but as you can see, it's broken.  In your case, the second driver load
doesn't notice that the miibus module is already loaded, tries to load it,
and it conflicts with the one that's already there.

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Matt Emmerton


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