From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: 2.5.48 modules problem Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:40:43 +1100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DD97A7B.60200@torque.net> References: <200211182217.gAIMHi904571@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "J.E.J. Bottomley" Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org J.E.J. Bottomley wrote: > dougg@torque.net said: > >>Can't see other reports on this in the lists **. When I upgraded to lk >>2.5.48, my kernel can't load modules. modprobe and friends all fail >>with: >> QM_MODULES: Function not implemented > > > The entire method the kernel uses to construct and load modules changed in > 2.5.48. You need Rusty's new module loader routines: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/module-init-tools-0.7.tar.g > z James, Thanks. I made some progress. Hope Rusty is going to write some documentation, man pages, update the Changes file, etc. The new modprobe doesn't seem to pass parameters (options) properly, at least that is what I'm seeing with scsi_debug. Enough other things are broken with 2.5.48 to force me back to lk 2.4.18 . Doug Gilbert