[Openchrome-users] VIA DRM module dependencies with 2.4 kernel

[Thomas Hellström]

Hi!

> I just compiled the DRM VIA modues against a 2.4.29 kernel, and all went
> well except that depmod reports unresolved symbols in via_drv.o
> I sent the modules to a colleague who has VIA CLE266 hardware (I don't)
> and he reports that after "modprobe agpgart" and "modprobe via", "modprobe
> via_drv" fails with this message -
>
> modprobe: Too deep recursion in module dependencies!
> modprobe: Circular dependency? via_video via_drv
> Aborted"

You seem to have sent three identical messages to the mailing list?

Hmm, Your problem seems to be that you have copied all .o files to the
kernel directory instead of only "via.o".

/Thomas