Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:22:59 +0100 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping |
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Hi Keith,
thanks for your modutils-2.3.21!
During testing I found a problem: modprobe pppoe was recursing endlessly in build_stack().
Find attached the modules.dep that caused this: There is a circular dependency of pppoe on pppox on pppoe on ....
modprobe has code to detect this in build_stack(), but it seems to not work. The old dep is thrown away and the new one is taken. And checked for dependencies again :-( Of course, one could also think of depmod making sure that such circular dependencies do not occur, but I guess, it's more robust if depmod has a working test in any case.
Test system was a PPC machine running 2.4.0-test9.
Do you have a fix for this?
Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_async.o: /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o: /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.o: /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/pppoe.o: /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/pppox.o \ /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/pppox.o: /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/pppoe.o \ /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/skfp/skfp.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/kernel/drivers/net/slip.o:
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