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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Andreas Boman <aboman@goofy.nerdfest.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.17 has 2 modules named sym53c8xx.o 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:00:52 CDT."
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:00:52 -0500, 
Andreas Boman <aboman@goofy.nerdfest.org> wrote:
>It seems a new sym53c8xx was added in 2.4.17, and now there are 2 modules,
>both named sym53c8xx.o (CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX and
>CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2). This was noticed since my mkinitrd script isn't
>smart enough to destinguish the two. Leading to the question how does
>modprobe?

It does not.  Two modules with the same name give undefined results for
modprobe, insmod, initrd etc.

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