From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: Problems module autoload in 2.6.x Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:48:12 +1000 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1080690492.11048.46.camel@bach> References: <4051DA6E.6070809@steudten.com> <1079490472.3400.114.camel@bach> <4069CCEC.2080802@steudten.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4069CCEC.2080802@steudten.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Thomas Steudten Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org, lkml - Kernel Mailing List 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=B4t 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=B4t 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. --=20 Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html