From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jkosina@suse.cz, mchehab@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] module: create a request_module_nowait()
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:02:17 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902091702.18887.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090208104201.6124ab6a@infradead.org>
On Monday 09 February 2009 05:12:01 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> This patch changes this to use a request_module_nowait() function macro instead,
> which just fires the modprobe off but doesn't wait for it, and thus avoids the
> original deadlock entirely.
Nice, applied. Made one change; I've taken to using the new-fangled bool
type for flag args, for slight extra clarity.
(Which uncovered another interesting issue, which lead to several more
patches).
Thanks,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-08 18:42 [PATCH 1/3] module: create a request_module_nowait() Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-08 18:42 ` [PATCH 2/3] use the new request_module_nowait() in the hid driver Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-10 17:23 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-02-10 22:18 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-08 18:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] use the new request_module_nowait() in drivers/media Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-08 19:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-09 16:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-02-10 13:32 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-10 18:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-02-09 6:32 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-02-09 15:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] module: create a request_module_nowait() Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-10 3:11 ` Rusty Russell
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