Ticket #1167 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

if CONFIG_KMOD disabled in kernel, driver fails to load with various problems

Reported by: markxr@gmail.com Assigned to: mentor
Priority: minor Milestone: version 0.9.3
Component: madwifi: other Version: trunk
Keywords: CONFIG_KMOD Cc:
Patch is attached: 0 Pending:

Description

Madwifi doesn't check if CONFIG_KMOD is enabled, but relies on it for correct operation; the driver fails to load its various sub-modules, hence enters an unusable state (not having registered any interfaces etc)

CONFIG_KMOD should probably be checked in the Makefile as the other configs are.

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Change History

02/27/07 20:15:07 changed by mentor

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

r2162

03/01/07 03:34:26 changed by mentor

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.
  • milestone set to version 0.9.3.

Re-opening. Proski has pointed out that this is no the correct solution. Instead of a hard-dependency, we should degrade gracefully.

03/01/07 03:35:09 changed by mentor

  • status changed from reopened to new.
  • owner set to mentor.

03/01/07 20:49:53 changed by mentor

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

r2168

03/02/07 06:36:14 changed by mrenzmann

It should be pointed out here that the OP is wrong in his conclusion(s). The behaviour is to be expected when CONFIG_KMOD is not enabled. Even more when the user loads the modules via insmod rather than modprobe.

Add/Change #1167 (if CONFIG_KMOD disabled in kernel, driver fails to load with various problems)