Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm2

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:56:30PM +0200, Antonio Dolcetta wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2004 08:12:58 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Antonio Dolcetta <adolcetta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > something has broken the b44 module,
> > >  modprobe b44 fails with:
> > >  FATAL: Error inserting b44 (/lib/modules/2.6.6-rc3-mm2/kernel/drivers/net/b44.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> > > 
> > >  dmesg contains the line:
> > >  b44: Unknown symbol generic_mii_ioctl
> > 
> > Please config that your .config does not set CONFIG_MII?
> > 
> > 
> 
> I enabled the Media Independent Interface and it works perfectly
> Sorry for the noise

Why sorry?

You found a bug in the kernel, and Andrew has posted a patch to fix this 
bug in future kernel releases.

> 	Antonio

cu
Adrian

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