Re: Loading a module multtiple times

Kai Germaschewski (kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:42:34 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> To get a large number of network interfaces, Christian (below)
> told me to copy driver/net/dummy.o to several different file names
> and then insmod them. It seems to have worked for him, and it works
> that way in 2.4.recent, but it's not working for me. See error
> messages below.
>
> Which way is expected behavior?
> What should be the expected behavior?

This failure is expected behavior, AFAICT. The module.ko has the module
name embedded and thus duplicate insertion will be recognized even when
the .ko file has been renamed.

To allow insertion of a module under a new name, you have to give
module-init-tools some new option (which I can't remember right now).

--Kai

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