loader/kernel and snd_cmi (again ?)
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Nov 20 14:16:35 PST 2003
:I think this is the same problem I mentioned a few days ago under the
:Headsup-FreeBSD5-bootcode thread. I didn't actually notice my sound
:card wasn't being detected until earlier today (shortly after figuring
:out my installworld wasn't working because I had that sneaky broken
:shell script kernel :)
:
:
:--James
I believe I have just fixed it, but it's hard to tell. Basically the
problem with snd_cmi is that the kernel was not detecting the fact that
the preloaded module existed because it was looking for 'snd_cmi.ko'
instead of '/modules/snd_cmi.ko'.
The solution is to strip the path elements when doing compares.
I also found that most of the ethernet drivers as well as some others
did not properly declare the module name, making it impossible for the
kernel to determine whether a module dependancy or preloaded module
already existed in a static kernel or not. I believe I have fixed
those as well.
I hope.
-Matt
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