From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 26 10:35: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830FF37B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:35:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgw-dax2.ext.nokia.com (mgw-dax2.ext.nokia.com [63.78.179.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3726E43EB2 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:35:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Mike.Ruhl@nokia.com) Received: from davir04nok.americas.nokia.com (davir04nok.americas.nokia.com [172.18.242.87]) by mgw-dax2.ext.nokia.com (Switch-2.2.1/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id gAQIYuj02622 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:34:56 -0600 (CST) Received: from daebh001.NOE.Nokia.com (unverified) by davir04nok.americas.nokia.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:34:52 -0600 Received: from dhcp18218294.americas.nokia.com ([172.18.182.94]) by daebh001.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:33:36 -0800 Subject: Re: Loading if_xl from the loader From: Michael J Ruhl To: ext Jarrod Sayers Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Mike Hogsett , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20021126102115.X37856-100000@theboss.magill.unisa.edu.au> References: <20021126102115.X37856-100000@theboss.magill.unisa.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 26 Nov 2002 10:33:31 -0800 Message-Id: <1038335612.2849.12.camel@dhcp18218294.americas.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Nov 2002 18:33:36.0719 (UTC) FILETIME=[552A75F0:01C2957A] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To: Mike Hogsett > > 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" > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message