From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) When insmod of 3c90x driver with 3c980c-TC card is present, a warning is posted to STDERR. root.us.dell.com> insmod 3c90x Using /lib/modules/2.4.1-0.1.9smp/kernel/drivers/net/3c90x.o Warning: /lib/modules/2.4.1-0.1.9smp/kernel/drivers/net/3c90x.o parameter switch delay has max < min. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Wolverine on a machine w/3c980c-TX 2. Insmod 3c90x.o 3. That's it.
This bug has already been reported to 3com with no response. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27412 ***
Well, I was the original poster of this bug....but after upgrading my kernel (I built my own rpms, 2.4.1-ac20 + loop patches) and to Wolverine the message stopped! I checked the 3c90x code and that was still the same so something else has changed somewhere.
The message was actually coming from modutils, not the module itself. The module used a macro MAX_UNITS about a few thousand lines before it was even defined; normally that would break compilation but because the macro was only used with "stringification" it was actually legal and became an empty string... The switchdelay argument was marked as having legal values between 1 and the empty string, which modutils reasonably didn't like. I have fixed that in our sources, but disabled it because of reports of other problems and because it is superfluous in the face of the existing and broader-scope 3c59x driver.