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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:02:29 -0600
From:      Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting with modules
Message-ID:  <20010320020229.A435@edgemaster.zombie.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010319235300.A16082@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:53:00PM -0800
References:  <20010319235314.A444@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20010319230008.B15322@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010320013443.A472@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20010319235300.A16082@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:53:00PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Okay, so what you're actually saying is that if you don't tell the
> loader to load miibus.ko (which is a required dependency of if_xl.ko),
> then if_xl.ko doesn't load properly even though it's registered as
> being loaded?  It wasn't terribly clear in your initial mail what you

No.  My initial point was basically "It isn't loading everything it is
supposed to be loading."  I was simplifying the problem since I had a lack
of information on the topic and wanted to see if anybody knew anything
about it before I dug in deeper.

> claimed the problem was (everything else seems to be okay, at least at
> first glance).  There may be some problem with module dependencies, I
> don't know.  What happens if you explicitly load miibus in
> loader.conf?

No matter whether I specify miibus or not in loader.conf, it still fails to
load if_xl.ko even though it is registered.  If, however, I remove if_dc.ko
and miibus.ko from loader.conf, then if_xl.ko will load properly.   It
seems to me that the two modules (xl and dc) don't get along, or that there
is some sort of limit to the number of modules it wants to load.

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