Re: [PATCH] mii module broken under new scheme

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 17:50, Matt Reppert wrote:
> drivers/net/mii.c doesn't export module init/cleanup functions. That means it
> can't be loaded under the new module scheme. This patch adds do-nothing
> functions for it, which allows it to load. (8139too depends on mii, so
> without this I don't have network.)

The bug is in the module layer. This isn't the right fix at all. When
the module layer is fixed to behave sanely the problem will go away