From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Thomas Steudten <alpha@steudten.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems module autoload in 2.6.x
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:48:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080690492.11048.46.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4069CCEC.2080802@steudten.com>
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 05:39, Thomas Steudten wrote:
> In kernel 2.6.x, I use 2.6.4, the option -k to
> modprobe is gone. Also the request_module() call
> in the kernel source, don´t set this option.
> The lsmod or cat /proc/modules don't gives
> the string "(autoclean)" any more. But that's
> another point, don't know why this is gone..
Because there's no autocleaning of modules any more. You'd
wipe out your network modules every time, for a start.
> If I call mdir a:, the floppy module
> isn´t requested in request_module().
To debug this, please create a dummy modprobe like I suggested before.
That will tell you (1) whether modprobe is being called when you do
an mdir, and (2) what module it's asking for.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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2004-03-12 15:42 Problems module autoload in 2.6.x Thomas Steudten
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2004-03-30 19:39 ` Thomas Steudten
2004-03-30 23:48 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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