Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org> writes: > |-----------------+-------------+-------------+--------------------------| > | Panic on | | | If a network device | > | load/unload a | | | driver, possibly any | > | kernel module | | | driver, is linked into | > | for a driver | Patch | Maxime | the kernel and then | > | already | submitted | Henrion | loaded and unloaded as a | > | statically | | | module, the kernel will | > | linked into the | | | panic. This has been | > | kernel. | | | observed with both if_dc | > | | | | and if_fxp. | > |-----------------+-------------+-------------+--------------------------| I'm unable to reproduce this; kldload refuses to load a module which is already present, and if you try to preload a driver which is compiled into the kernel, the kernel will refuse to register it. There have been problems with unloading network drivers (due to interrupts being delivered to a handler which had disappeared into thin air) but these had nothing to do with whether the driver was already compiled-in, and I believe they were fixed about a month ago. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des_at_ofug.orgReceived on Tue May 13 2003 - 07:10:15 UTC
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