Just a guess:

you need to update all references to 10.4.3 to 10.4.4 which means  
that you need
to change all 8.3 to 8.4.

Best regards
Michael

On Jan 12, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Jeremy Pereira wrote:

> I have an IOKit driver which refuses to load on OS X 10.4.4.  It's  
> telling me that one of its dependencies is invalid.  How can I get  
> more information to resolve the issue?  The driver was originally  
> written on 10.4.3 and works fine there.  In the following  
> transcript, I updated the version number dependency for the  
> IOStorageFamily driver to that reported by kextstat on 10.4.4.  I  
> have also tried it with the dependency set to 1.0.0b1 which is  
> IOStorage's compatible version and also to 1.4.4 which is the  
> version reported by kextstat on 10.4.3.
>
> jeremyp@elise:Development$ sudo cp -R MemoryTechPlasmon.kext /tmp
> Password:
> jeremyp@elise:Development$ sudo kextload -t /tmp/
> MemoryTechPlasmon.kext
> kernel extension /tmp/MemoryTechPlasmon.kext has problems:
> Missing dependencies
> {
>     "com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily" =
>         "No valid version of this dependency can be found"
> }
>
> jeremyp@elise:Development$ kextstat | grep IOStorageFamily
>    45    6 0x494000   0x1d000    0x1c000    
> com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily (1.5) <6 5 4 3 2>
> jeremyp@elise:Development$ more /tmp/MemoryTechPlasmon.kext/
> Contents/Info.plist
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <... snip ...>
>
>         <key>OSBundleLibraries</key>
>         <dict>
>                 <key>com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily</
> key>
>                 <string>1.4.4</string>
>                 <key>com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily</key>
>                 <string>1.5</string>
>                 <key>com.apple.kpi.bsd</key>
>                 <string>8.3</string>
>                 <key>com.apple.kpi.iokit</key>
>                 <string>8.3</string>
>                 <key>com.apple.kpi.libkern</key>
>                 <string>8.3</string>
>                 <key>com.apple.kpi.mach</key>
>                 <string>8.3</string>
>                 <key>com.apple.kpi.unsupported</key>
>                 <string>8.3</string>
>         </dict>
> </dict>
> </plist>
> jeremyp@elise:Development$ uname -a
> Darwin elise.aptosolutions.local 8.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.4.0:  
> Tue Jan  3 18:22:10 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.56.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  
> Power Macintosh powerpc
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>
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