Bug 21260

Summary: kernel module 3c509 does not recognize io and irq parameters
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Alex Baretta <alex>
Component: kernelAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.0   
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a snapshot from my xterm showing what happens at insmod time... none

Description Alex Baretta 2000-11-22 19:39:02 UTC 
When using modprobe or insmod to load 3c509.o in the running kernel
(standard one shipping with RH7.0) insmod reads the first parameter I pass
to the module and quits with an error message saying something
"Unrecognized parameter parm_XXXX" where XXXX is either "irq" or "io"
depending on which of the two is first on the options line for 3c509 in the
modules.conf file.

If I try to rebuild the kernel for a Pentium with the module precompiled
into it, the compiler tells me that "smp_xxx" function is undefined, and
quits the compilations. If I build the kernel for a Pentium chip with SMP
selected (although my machine has only one processor) the kernel compiles
but it hangs the machine while attempting to "mount local filesystems". If
I then press Ctrl-Alt-Del the machine begins its shutdown cycle, but once
again it hangs while "unmounting filesystems".

The only solution I found was to erase my HDs and reinstall my trusted 6.2.
Comment 1 Alex Baretta 2000-11-22 19:41:03 UTC 
Created attachment 5662 [details]
a snapshot from my xterm showing what happens at insmod time...
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-24 05:35:37 UTC 
Re: kernel build; you need to run make mrproper first


What happens if you change the options lines to:

options <module name>

instead of

options <interface>?