strange problem with: ed driver / 4.9-PRE

[Erik Trulsson]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:03:55AM +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> Hi,
> in the kernel I have these lines:
> 
> [...]
> device          miibus          # MII bus support
> device          rl
> device          ed
> 
> options         IPFIREWALL              #firewall
> options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE      #enable logging to syslogd(8)
> options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=0      #limit verbosity
> options         IPDIVERT                #divert sockets
> options         DUMMYNET
> options         IPFW2
> [...]
> 
> When the box starts it complains:
> 
> Sep 15 15:54:21 test2 /kernel: acd0: CDROM <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6002B> at 
> ata1-master PIO3
> Sep 15 15:54:21 test2 /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> Sep 15 15:54:21 test2 /kernel: module_register: module miibus/ukphy already 
> exists!
> Sep 15 15:54:21 test2 /kernel: linker_file_sysinit "miibus.ko" failed to 
> register! 17
> Sep 15 15:54:21 test2 /kernel: module_register: module pci/ed already 
> exists!
> Sep 15 15:54:21 test2 /kernel: linker_file_sysinit "if_ed.ko" failed to 
> register! 17
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> test2:/home/gmarco> kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1    5 0xc0100000 1b4bb4   kernel
>  2    1 0xc08f8000 6000     procfs.ko
>  4    2 0xc0912000 e000     miibus.ko
>  5    1 0xc0924000 a000     if_ed.ko
>  6    1 0xc0993000 3000     daemon_saver.ko
> 

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> 
> Any idea on what is happening ?

What is happening is that the system is attempting to load support for
'ed' (and by extension also 'miibus') as a module, but since you already
have it in the kernel this loading fails and the system complains.
This is harmless, but annoying.




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