From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Misleading error message
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:36:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041130233641.GA26660@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0411302151160.31175@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:56:25PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >I compiled built-in support for iptables in my new 2.6.9 kernel, but when my
> >legacy firewall does a "modprobe ip_tables" , I get the startling message:
> >"FATAL: module ip_tables not found" .
> k
>
> Linux Developers,
>
> what would you think of say, a line added to modules' code that identifies
> compiled-in components?
See the patches posted to lkml to have modules that are built into the
kernel show up in sysfs. Hopefully the remaining issues to that patch
are being addressed and then it will eventually make it into the main
kernel tree. That should help with this issue a lot.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-30 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-30 19:45 PROBLEM: misleading error message Bebel
2004-11-30 20:56 ` Misleading " Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-30 23:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-11-30 21:58 ` PROBLEM: misleading " Jesper Juhl
2004-11-30 22:10 ` [RFC] " Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-30 22:29 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-30 22:27 ` Phil Oester
2004-11-30 22:29 ` Lee Revell
2004-11-30 22:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-02 12:33 ` David Ford
2004-12-02 23:40 ` Ken Moffat
2004-12-03 10:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-05 0:32 ` Horst von Brand
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