Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod

[Laurent Riffard]

Le 05.02.2005 12:26, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Le 04.02.2005 19:33, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/
> > >
> >
> > loading dm-mod module fails with this message :
> >
> > FATAL: Error inserting dm-mod
> > (/lib/modules/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko): Device or resource busy
> >
> > The following line appears in dmesg :
> >
> > register_blkdev: failed to get major for device-mapper
>
>
> You've enabled CONFIG_BASE_SMALL and so the major_names[] hashtable has
> just one element.  device-mapper uses dynamic major allocation, the range
> of which is limited to the size of the top-level major_names[] array.  You
> ran out of slots and register_blkdev() failed.

Ok, selecting CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y solved the problem.

Thanks for your help.

--
laurent

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