Re: modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping

2000-11-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:24:48PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote: > This is a pity, because I think the current behaviour is not acceptable, > as it can kill the machine by just being invoked by kmod. > I will try to make sense out of the code and make sure that modprobe > will not go crazy, by either

Re: modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping

2000-11-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:33:53AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:22:59 +0100, > Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Find attached the modules.dep that caused this: There is a circular > >dependency of pppoe on pppox on pppoe on > > The kernel code is broken. Cir

Re: modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping

2000-11-28 Thread Rod Stewart
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:22:59 +0100, > Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Find attached the modules.dep that caused this: There is a circular > >dependency of pppoe on pppox on pppoe on > > The kernel code is broken. Circular dependencies m

Re: modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping

2000-11-28 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:22:59 +0100, Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Find attached the modules.dep that caused this: There is a circular >dependency of pppoe on pppox on pppoe on The kernel code is broken. Circular dependencies make no sense, the pppoe maintainer agrees and I thoug