From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:08:49 +0800 > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:01:15AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: >> >> IIRC modprobe(8) in user-space is supposed to load all dependencies >> prior to loading the main module. So something must've gone wrong >> before bnx2/bnx2x was loaded. Please strace it to see why libcrc32c >> wasn't loaded successfully before the kernel ever saw bnx2/bnx2x. > > In fact I just tried it on my machine and modprobe bnx2x correctly > loaded libcrc32c + crc32c before loading bnx2x (you don't need the > hardware, it'll stay loaded). My kernel is 2.6.33-rc8. > > I suspect it's a user-space problem. I'm using module-init-tools > 3.4-1 from Debian. Even if userland "does" this, nothing stops another thread from rmmod'ing the dependency in between the modloads. We have to handle this case properly in the kernel, no matter what. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
