On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:37:55 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan said: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:33:46AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:06:48 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/ > > > > OK, so I don't actually *use* the irDA on my laptop for much, but I figure if > > I have the hardware, I should at least make sure the driver comes up. > > > > 23-rc3-mm1 causes massive spewage, apparently at least partially as a fall-out > > of the sysctl rework. Not sure if those caused the 'unknown symbol' issues or > > not. The 'cannot allocate memory' is somewhat odd too, I can't believe it was > > *really* out of memory while still in /etc/rc5.d when I have 2G of ram... > > Eric is a bit sadistic with sysctls. If sysctl_check_table() fails > irda_sysctl_register() will think there is no memory. Ahh.. overloading a failure code. OK, I can deal with that... > As for unknown symbols, hell knows. Same as with multiple syscts errors. > What have you modprobed exactly and what is $(grep IRDA .config) ? >From the .config ("turn them all on and see what sticks" here) CONFIG_IRDA=m # # IrDA protocols # CONFIG_IRLAN=m CONFIG_IRNET=m CONFIG_IRCOMM=m CONFIG_IRDA_ULTRA=y # # IrDA options # CONFIG_IRDA_CACHE_LAST_LSAP=y CONFIG_IRDA_FAST_RR=y CONFIG_IRDA_DEBUG=y # # Infrared-port device drivers # # # SIR device drivers # CONFIG_IRTTY_SIR=m On my doesn't-complain -rc2-mm1 kernel: % lsmod | grep -i ir irnet 21409 0 ppp_generic 22177 1 irnet irtty_sir 8321 0 sir_dev 14473 1 irtty_sir ircomm_tty 35345 0 ircomm 20425 1 ircomm_tty irda 188973 5 irnet,irtty_sir,sir_dev,ircomm_tty,ircomm crc_ccitt 2817 1 irda My guess is that irda fails to insmod because of the sysctl errors, so when the other ir* modules try to load, they come up empty on symbols that irda provides.
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