From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maurice Volaski Subject: Re: CONFIG_KMOD in x86_64/defconfig (was Re: iptables is complaining with bogus unknown error 18446744073709551615) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:00:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200604210738.k3L7cBGO010103@mailgw.aecom.yu.edu> <20060427135119.GB5177@rama> <20060427192430.GE21823@rama> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060427192430.GE21823@rama> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Harald Welte Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:41:40AM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:12:38PM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: >> >> Automatic kernel module loading! That is an option and it's off by >> >> default. When it's off, attempts to load kernel modules are ignored >> >> internally, and that's why iptables was failing. It tried to load >> >> xt_tcpudp, but was ignored by the kernel. >> >What do you mean by "it's an option" and "is off by default". I would >> >claim that any major linux distribution that I've seen in the last ten >> >years has support for module auto loading (enabled by default). >> >> Distribution vendors are free to change it to whatever they want, >>I guess, but it's OFF by >> default in the official kernel (.config). > >apparently architecture-specific: > >grep KMOD arch/i386/defconfig >CONFIG_KMOD=y > >grep KMOD arch/x86_64/defconfig >CONFIG_KMOD is not set > >don't know why x86_64 turns it off by default. the help message says A typo, perhaps? If so, won't be for much longer: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6451 -- Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University