On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 21:15 +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:03:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Sure that this is actually communicated to userspace? It appears that the > > > module is still loaded, with no devices bound. > > > In Linux 2.6 probe failure doesn't mean load failure. Forget everything > > you know from earlier versions. > > That's exactly my point. Will the second module be loaded still if the > first one didn't fail to load (i.e. the probe failure isn't communicated to > userspace)? [...] modprobe will load them both, regardless of whether probe succeeds or fails. That is, if they have both been indexed by depmod. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ... and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds
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