On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Gordon McLellan wrote:
pciback is compiled as a module: [root@xenhost ~]# grep BACKEND /boot/config-3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64 CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND=m CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND=m CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND=y CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND=m and the file does exist: [root@xenhost ~]# ls -lah /lib/modules/3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64/kernel/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/ total 108K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 10:19 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Oct 12 10:19 .. -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 100K Oct 10 08:41 xen-pciback.ko Near as I can tell the 0) is coming from the kernel command line but it is getting mangled somewhere along the way. If I remove the xen-pciback.hide directive from the grub config file, the kernel is able to load the pciback module without issue, and without any configuration. I tried moving the xen-pciback.hide directive to the front of the kernel command line, it did not help. From dmesg: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.7.2 20120921 (Red Hat 4.7.2-2) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 12:13:05 UTC 2012 [ 0.000000] Command line: placeholder root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro xen-pciback.hide=(0b:00.0)(09:00.0) rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg0/swap KEYTABLE=us rd.lvm.lv=vg0/root rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
If you haven't already done so I suggest you get rid of anything in /etc/modprobe.d/ you added, just in case that is getting in the way.
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