On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:44:18AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:27:59AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > modprobe will load them both, regardless of whether probe succeeds or
> > fails. That is, if they have both been indexed by depmod.
> I just tried, and no, the "wl" module is not autoloaded even after
> rerunning depmod -a explicitly and rebooting (which also runs depmod -a
> IIRC).
And why is it a bug in the kernel if an external module fails to load?
Please show the following information:
- modinfo wl
- /sys/bus/pci/devices/$PCIID/modalias
> Autoload works with 2.6.29.
So the wl module was not updated for 2.6.30? The kernel does not
consider kernel level interfaces as stable.
Bastian
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