On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:01:50AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> You _must_ use the -x, or else it exports some symbol that it (apparently)
> shouldn't be exporting, and the second insmod will segfault. I think this
> is a bug in ethertap, but I'm not sure. There is definitely a modutils bug
> that causes the segfault, and the maintainer is aware of it (or he was :)).
Sorry to reply to myself...
I was behind the times! There's a new modutils (modutils-2.1.121) that
fixes the segfault. And I just figured out how to fix ethertap to make '-x'
completely unnecessary. Here's the patch. I'll send it to Linus shortly.
Have fun,
Avery
--- linux/drivers/net/ethertap-old.c Fri Oct 23 10:25:39 1998
+++ linux/drivers/net/ethertap.c Fri Oct 23 10:25:44 1998
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@
#ifdef MODULE
-int unit;
+static int unit;
MODULE_PARM(unit,"i");
static char devicename[9] = { 0, };
-
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