On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > > You mean MII? Doesn't `select MII' do the right thing?
> > > >
> > > > Did fail (MII compiled in when driver was modular) at least once for me.
> > >
> > > Strange. Do you remember what went wrong? Missing exports in MII?
> >
> > To the contrary - duplicate symbols in both kernel and module. I'll try to
> > reproduce it.
>
> mii: exports duplicate symbol mii_link_ok (owned by kernel)
>
> (MII was builtin even after I switched to ethernat as module)
>
> The error actually results from a leftover mii.ko with no known function.
> Deleted that, and the module loads fine, using the builtin MII. Why it
> even attempts to load the obsolete module - no idea. Does depmod double
> check that symbols aren't already in the kernel symbol table?
Probably not.
I've seen similar issues with switching from modular to builtin driver
builds: udev will happily load the (old) driver module after scanning
sysfs, while the driver is already builtin.
Always make sure to remove the old *.ko files...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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