Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:35:44 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.43 breaks pppd! (SOLVED, possible config gotcha) |
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 05:18:41PM -0500, Paul Barton-Davis wrote: > >Why then I'm using PPP without any problems and without KMOD with 2.3.44? > >Well, probably because of that I have either PPP compiled into kernel > >or load it as a module. But I don't need KMOD for that! > > Right, if you compile it into the kernel, it will obviously work. But > if you compile it as a module *without* also requesting KMOD, then it > will not work *even when* you manually insmod the required modules. > Or at least, thats been my experience. Maybe I didn't load all the > required modules, now that I think of it - without kmod, it would have > been missing slhc and the other compression modules. Sigh. > > anyway, things that can be compiled a module *and* require a major > device number that is also implemented with a module should verify > that KMOD is turned on.
Why? That just doesn't make sense. Why should I have KMOD turned on to eg. use a joystick? I know, it can make some things easier, but that's a matter of personal preference. If I don't want KMOD, I just insmod joystick.o, and it will get char major 15, because it requests it. Why it should need KMOD?
-- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs
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