Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:07:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting with modules Message-ID: <200103200807.f2K87qg15969@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:02:29 CST." <20010320020229.A435@edgemaster.zombie.org>
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> No matter whether I specify miibus or not in loader.conf, it still fail=
s to
> load if_xl.ko even though it is registered. If, however, I remove if_d=
c.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 t=
here
> is some sort of limit to the number of modules it wants to load.
I don't have a quick answer for your problem (yet), but I'd just like to =
clarify that there aren't any limits like this.
I *suspect* that what's happening is that the dependancy checking code is=
=
incorrectly not registering the if_xl module when it discovers that its =
dependancy (miibus) is already loaded.
You can verify this by reversing the load order, ie. loading if_xl first.=
=
If this results in if_dc disappearing, then we have a smoking gun.
-- =
=2E.. every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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