[openib-general] one request

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Tue Aug 24 09:50:01 PDT 2004


    ron> Ollie Lo found in the latest mellanox gold source tree a
    ron> circular dependency.  The tavor driver depended on the mad
    ron> symbols being loaded, but correct initialization of the mad
    ron> layer required that the tavor driver be loaded.

I don't believe there is a circular dependency (otherwise it would be
impossible to load the modules).  The problem is actually that the MAD
module does _not_ depend on the Tavor driver, so module dependencies
don't automatically load the Tavor driver.

It should work fine to either load the MAD driver and then load the
Tavor driver, or just modprobe the Tavor driver, which will bring in
the Tavor driver and all its dependencies (including the MAD driver).

 - Roland



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