Comment 10 for bug 6914

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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:45:15 -0400
From: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
To: Per Olofsson <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#257191: fails to start pcmcia if pcmcia_core is already loaded

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Per Olofsson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 15:36 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I think what is going on is that disocver1-data has learned to load
> > yenta_socket for my cardbus. Loading that pulls in pcmcia_core. Then
> > the init script is started, but it is not very robust (or idempotent),
> > and fails to load ds or start cardmgr if pcmcia_core is already loaded.
>=20
> The problem seems to be that busybox's modprobe returns an error if a
> module is already loaded. modprobe from module-init-tools and modutils
> does not have this behaviour. But I can fix it in the init script if
> it's difficult or undesirable to do it in busybox.

Yes, I filed bug #257201 on busybox about this. I do think fixing
busybox is the best solution, but since this does prevent a lot of
pcmcia hardware from being usable in the installer, and for all I know
we have code that depends on the current modprobe behavior, I'd
appreciate a quick fix if possible.

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see shy jo

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