From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>,
gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:23:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11274.1281061410@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=+-Y2GOZYAZHeaX+op3XB9AY5S85rfJD3jSDvz@mail.gmail.com>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> People always think that their magical code is so important. I tell
> you up-front that is absolutely is not. Just remove the crap entirely,
> please.
Even if he does remove it, that still leaves the problem that modprobe can be
invoked and fail before tty_init() gets called:-/
I wonder if tty_init() should be moved up, perhaps to immediately after
chrdev_init().
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-06 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 1:01 Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem David Howells
2010-08-06 1:17 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-06 1:40 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-06 2:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-06 2:23 ` David Howells [this message]
2010-08-06 2:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-06 2:35 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-06 4:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-06 4:50 ` Kyle Moffett
2010-08-06 8:06 ` Olivier Galibert
2010-08-06 8:39 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-06 11:13 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-08-06 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-06 2:27 ` David Howells
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