Re: module-init-tools 0.9.3 -- "missing" issue

[ALESSANDRO.SUARDI]

Jean Tourrhiles wrote:
>
> Rusty Russell wrote :
> > In message <[e-mail]> you write:
> > >   to modprobe vfat - but not the full irda stack, I'll report this
> > >   separately to Jean) _and_ on 2.4.20 (modular IrDA and PPP are
> > 
> > I'd appreciate receiving a copy of that irda report.  It's probably
> > not Jean's fault.
>      I've just managed to load and run Linux-IrDA on 2.5.51, and
> apart from a few warning (see my other e-mail) it was working. I even
> tested PPP over IrCOMM. But I didn't check smc-ircc.
>      So, this one might be *mine* ;-)

Yep, it's smc-ircc :)

Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin kernel: IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli)
Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin irattach: executing: '/sbin/modprobe irda0'
Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin kernel: found SMC SuperIO Chip (devid=0x09 rev=08 base=0x03f0): FDC37N958FR
Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin kernel: SMC IrDA Controller found
Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin kernel:  IrCC version 1.1, firport 0x290, sirport 0x3e8 dma=3, irq=4
Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin irattach: + FATAL: Error inserting smc_ircc
(/lib/modules/2.5.51/kernel/smc-ircc.ko): No such device
Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin irattach: Trying to load module irda0 exited with status 1
Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin irattach: executing: 'echo 1 >
/proc/sys/net/irda/discovery'
Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin irattach: Starting device irda0
Dec 10 22:57:36 dolphin kernel: Module irda cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage in net/irda/af_irda.c:1146

Should I give up on it and go for Daniele's smsc-ircc2 ? I confess I hadn't
 used 2.5.xx for a couple of weeks awaiting for some form of stabilization
 of the new module code (don't blame me - I can only, ahem, "test" on
 my work laptop), and I had forgot about smsc-ircc2.

Since it seems someone could make some of the modular stuff work
 I'm back in the game :)

--alessandro