Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262437AbUK3Xng (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:43:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262452AbUK3Xmf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:42:35 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:9930 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262431AbUK3Xj1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:39:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:36:41 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Misleading error message Message-ID: <20041130233641.GA26660@kroah.com> References: <001101c4d715$25a59470$af00a8c0@BEBEL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 926 Lines: 24 On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:56:25PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >I compiled built-in support for iptables in my new 2.6.9 kernel, but when my > >legacy firewall does a "modprobe ip_tables" , I get the startling message: > >"FATAL: module ip_tables not found" . > k > > Linux Developers, > > what would you think of say, a line added to modules' code that identifies > compiled-in components? See the patches posted to lkml to have modules that are built into the kernel show up in sysfs. Hopefully the remaining issues to that patch are being addressed and then it will eventually make it into the main kernel tree. That should help with this issue a lot. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/