On 11/25/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In Debian we are currently seeing some problems with drivers that are
repeatedly loaded unsuccessfully:
kernel: Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
FATAL: Error inserting i82365: no such device
kernel: Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
[...]
According to Marco d'Itri this could be because "platform devices in
recent kernels provide $MODALIAS while they should not. So udev will
always try loading again the driver after it has been loaded."
He has suggested working around this by excluding loading drivers for
platform devices in udev. However, Sven Luther noted that e.g. the
Pegasos marvell gigabit ethernet port is a platform device for which the
driver should be loaded.
Can anyone shed some light on this and suggest a solution?
The only sane solution is to fix the kernel platform-subsystem to use
aliases instead of direct module names. In the bug you mentioned, the
platform device requests its _own_ module, the one which has just
created the device again. This misuse of modalias causes a
modprobe-loop when the init of the module fails.
The author of that code seems ignorant to the issues he creates by
doing that, but we hope to get that fixed. For now you can just
blacklist all platform events like Marco already suggested.
Kay
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