That's a strange error, I've never seen that one. Do you have an upto date
modutils installed? Sometimes (but I didn't think so for 2.4.21) you need
make sure you have the latest and greatest of modutils when you upgrade
your kernel. Check out the FAQ at http://www.linux-usb.org/ for a pointer
to hotplug. If you use RH it should come with it. I'm running the RH
kernel 2.4.20-19.7 so I've not actually tried 2.4.21. I was recently very
pleasantly surprised about how well the usb-storage module is doing. I was
at a meeting where we had no network connect but people had brought their
talks on USB dongly type devices. 4 our of 4 random devices worked fine.

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Carl Miller wrote:

> > > > > Please cc replies to me, and thanks much for any insights...
> > > >
> > > > The contents of /proc/bus/usb/devices would be more useful.
> > >
> > > I'd love to include it, but it doesn't seem to exist....
> > >
> > > devastator> cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
> > > cat: /proc/bus/usb/devices: No such file or directory
> > > devastator> ls -la /proc/bus/usb
> > > total 0
> > > dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Aug  4 20:47 .
> > > dr-xr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Aug  4 20:47 ..
> > >
> > > Is the very fact that /proc/bus/usb is empty troubling or telling?
> >
> > Do you have hotplug installed?
>
> Erm, hotplug?  OK, so much for being a relatively with-it Linux guy...
> I've got kmod turned on to automatically load kernel modules.  Is there
> something else I should have turned on?
>
> Hmmmm, I never saw any error messages about this in any logs, but now
> that I try it manually, it seems there's a problem loading usb-storage.o:
>
> devastator# modprobe usb-storage
> modprobe: Too deep recursion in module dependencies!
> modprobe: Circular dependency? ide-iops ide-lib ide usbcore usb-storage
> Aborted
> devastator# modprobe ide-lib
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.21-1/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-lib.o will taint the 
> kernel: no license
>   See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
> Module ide-lib loaded, with warnings
> devastator# modprobe ide
> modprobe: Too deep recursion in module dependencies!
> modprobe: Circular dependency? ide-iops ide-lib ide
> Aborted
> devastator# modprobe ide-iops
> modprobe: Too deep recursion in module dependencies!
> modprobe: Circular dependency? ide ide-lib ide-iops
> Aborted
>
> Well that's rather annoying.  Maybe both of these readers will be recognized
> after I figure out what's going on with these crazy ide modules.  And for
> that matter, why ide-lib doesn't appear to have an open-source license in
> it.  This should be a completely stock kernel, plus the CryptoAPI and
> OpenWall patches.  I'm pretty sure there's been no other tweakage to it.
> Certainly nothing in the area of either USB or IDE.
>
> Ever seen anything like this before?  Thanks again....
>
>
>                          -----Carl
>
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