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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>,
	Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>,
	Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: modprobe + request_module() deadlock
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:11:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041124121148.GD22798@bytesex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101272551.6186.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:02:31PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:52 +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > > Delaying request_module() sounds ugly. Anyway, if you can
> > > get it to work reliably...
> > 
> > I think I can, havn't tried yet through.
> 
> I still don't really like it as a solution,

I don't either, but loading modules unconditionally even if not needed
(especially if they pull in the complete dvb subsystem) isn't very nice
as well.

I'm open to other suggestions ...

> but this patch (pending anyway) should help.

Thanks.

  Gerd


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-24 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-17 22:29 modprobe + request_module() deadlock Johannes Stezenbach
2004-11-18  3:48 ` Rusty Russell
2004-11-18 13:55   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-11-18 19:05     ` Takashi Iwai
2004-11-19  4:04       ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-11-19 11:10         ` Takashi Iwai
2004-11-19 11:50           ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-19 12:42             ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-11-21  8:39             ` Rusty Russell
2004-11-22 10:25               ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-22 14:16                 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-11-22 14:44                   ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-22 15:36                     ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-11-22 16:52                       ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-24  5:02                         ` Rusty Russell
2004-11-24 12:11                           ` Gerd Knorr [this message]
2004-11-25 16:03                           ` Gerd Knorr
2004-11-26  0:34                             ` Rusty Russell

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