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Date:      26 Nov 2002 10:33:31 -0800
From:      Michael J Ruhl <Mike.Ruhl@nokia.com>
To:        ext Jarrod Sayers <Jarrod.Sayers@unisa.edu.au>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Loading if_xl from the loader
Message-ID:  <1038335612.2849.12.camel@dhcp18218294.americas.nokia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021126102115.X37856-100000@theboss.magill.unisa.edu.au>
References:  <20021126102115.X37856-100000@theboss.magill.unisa.edu.au>

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I asked about this a couple of weeks ago, but got no response.

The only way I could get it to work was to remove the miibus_load from
the configuration file.  The if_xl driver will figure out that miibus is
needed, and load it for itself.

Mike
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 15:52, ext Jarrod Sayers wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:14:23 +1030
> > From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
> > To: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>
> > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: Loading if_xl from the loader
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:07, Mike Hogsett wrote:
> > > Could if_xl depend on miibus and thus not be loaded because miibus hasn't
> > > been loaded yet?  Try putting `miibus_load="YES"' before `if_xl_load="YES"'
> >
> > I just tried that, no change :(
> >
> > FWIW the loader does know that if_xl needs miibus and loads that first.
> >
> > Hmm, I just rebooted it again and found that if I interrupt the loader
> > after it's loaded all the modules (including if_xl :) then do 'lsmod'
> > if_xl doesn't show up!
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> What happens if you take miibus_load="YES" out of loader.conf?  Is it
> still loaded as a dependancy by the loader when it trys to load if_xl?
> 
> Just an idea..
> 
> Jarrod Sayers
> Information Strategy and Technology Services
> University of South Australia
> Phone: +61 8 8302 4809
> 
> "There are only 10 types of people in the world:
>  Those who understand binary, and those who don't"
> 
> 
> 
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