Bug 50882

Summary:	Kernel does not load code for ecc.c when compiled in statically instead of as a module
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jordan Breeding <ledzep37>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Jordan Breeding 2001-08-04 13:00:40 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6-3.1-ext3 i686)

Description of problem:
When compiling a 2.4.6-3.1 kernel from source and choosing to include ECC
support (drivers/char/ecc.c) as a statically linked in portion of code
instead of a module the code never seems to load.  I checked the file ecc.c
and it looks like it only has init/remove code that compiles if it is a
module.  I would really like to use this section of code and try it out but
don't really like modules.  Will this be fixed any time soon?

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile kernel with ecc as an actual part of the kernel
2. Boot up
3. Watch the driver not work
	

Actual Results:  Driver does not load, no kernel messages at boot, no /proc
file is created.

Expected Results:  Driver should work as a static section of code and still
output kernel messages at boot time and create its files under /proc

Additional info:

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-08-04 15:37:51 UTC

Yes this is a bug, I'll fix it on monday. Thanks for reporting

Comment 2 Glen Foster 2001-08-06 22:40:48 UTC

We (Red Hat) should try to fix this for the next release.

Comment 3 Alan Cox 2003-06-06 16:32:35 UTC

Was this fixed Arjan ?

Comment 4 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:39:06 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/