Re: Modular i810fb broken, partial fix

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

Manuel Lauss wrote:
> Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> i810fb as a module is broken (checked with 2.6.13-mm3 and
>>> 2.6.14-rc2-mm1).
>>> It compiles, but the module doesn't actually load because the kernel
>>> doesn't recognize the hardware (the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE statement is
>>> missing).
>>
>>
>>
>>> The attached patch fixes this.
>>>
>>> However, the resulting module still doesn't work.
>>> It loads, and then garbles the display (black screen with a couple of
>>> yellow lines, no matter what is written into the framebuffer device).
>>
>>
>> Did you compile CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE statically, or did a
>> modprobe fbcon?
>> Does i810fb work if compiled statically?
> 
> I tried the module on my i815 laptop, after modprobe the module does
> nothing.
> The call to pci_register_driver() returns 0, and thats it; the probe
> function
> does not get called. Same thing with Bernhard's patch applied. No problems
> when compiled-in. Kernel 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, AGP compiled in, no DRM.

That's weird.  Can you find out why the probe function is not called? Can
you trace the pci_register_driver call starting in drivers/pci/pci-driver.c, then
in drivers/base/*.c?

(Or you can #define DEBUG somewhere, perhaps in include/linux/device.h?)
 
Tony