[ltp] DMA hotswap 0.2.0 vs. ibm-acpi-0.12a

[Dave Atkins]

This has been fixed in FC5 test 3.


D.

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 15:46 +0000, honey wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Andr=C3=A9 Wyrwa wrote:
>=20
> >> The reason ibm_acpi doesn't load with modprobe.conf params in Fedora i=
s
> >> this devilish section in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
> >>
> >> # Initialiaze ACPI bits
> >> if [ -d /proc/acpi ]; then
> >>     for module in /lib/modules/$unamer/kernel/drivers/acpi/* ; do
> >>        insmod $module >/dev/null 2>&1
> >>     done
> >> fi
> >>
> >> - it basically tries to load every possible acpi module early on.  And
> >> it uses insmod instead of modprobe, it doesn't honour modprobe.conf.
> >
> > You could try if modprobing works by changing the insmod line to
> >  modprobe $(basename $module) >/dev/null 2>&1
> > .
> >
> > Otherwise a more extensive adaption would be necessary, which probably
> > should be posted in a bug report.
>=20
> Yep.  The fact rc.sysinit used insmod instead made me wonder if some
> dependency for modprobe wasn't handled so early in the boot.  And I'd
> always rather chance rc.local than rc.sysinit, given that it might cause
> havoc with an update later.  But messy, as I think we all agree.
>=20
> I didn't get round to filing a bugzilla - I might do - or hopefully
> someone else will before me now :)
>=20
> Honey