Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

Rusty Russell
2008-01-29T05:50:37Z

On Sunday 27 January 2008 17:42:28 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> My problem is that the *driver* already exists (because it's compiled in),
> and has already initialized itself, and has already registered.
>
> Then, initrd tries to load an old module for that driver.

I hate to say it, but this is user error. And it used to be that for some
drivers you'd actually end up with two in-kernel if you did that.

But if even *you* don't get this right, it should finally prompt us to fix
this...

Thanks,
Rusty.