Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271453AbVBEN0A (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2005 08:26:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271395AbVBENZ7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2005 08:25:59 -0500 Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr ([213.228.0.62]:49363 "EHLO postfix4-1.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271425AbVBENZp (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2005 08:25:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4204C94C.8030506@free.fr> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:25:32 +0100 From: Laurent Riffard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk" , Matt Mackall Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod References: <20050204103350.241a907a.akpm@osdl.org> <4204880A.3010703@free.fr> <20050205032605.764eedac.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050205032605.764eedac.akpm@osdl.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6EAAC196E82061DCE62B5044" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1844 Lines: 55 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6EAAC196E82061DCE62B5044 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Le 05.02.2005 12:26, Andrew Morton a ?crit : > Laurent Riffard wrote: > >>Le 04.02.2005 19:33, Andrew Morton a ?crit : >> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/ >> > >> >> loading dm-mod module fails with this message : >> >> FATAL: Error inserting dm-mod >> (/lib/modules/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko): Device or resource busy >> >> The following line appears in dmesg : >> >> register_blkdev: failed to get major for device-mapper > > > You've enabled CONFIG_BASE_SMALL and so the major_names[] hashtable has > just one element. device-mapper uses dynamic major allocation, the range > of which is limited to the size of the top-level major_names[] array. You > ran out of slots and register_blkdev() failed. Ok, selecting CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y solved the problem. Thanks for your help. -- laurent --------------enig6EAAC196E82061DCE62B5044 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCBMlXUqUFrirTu6IRAvUnAJ9zDuH3SR4VFrzys8KXuktqD1J21QCfS9Yu nlD9WiQYGuLFBjnvUJouM8U= =ABDn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6EAAC196E82061DCE62B5044-- - 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/