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Subject: Re: Module init call vs symbols exporting race?
From: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 18:27 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> We fail rather than sleep in the "dependency isn't ready" case.  Partially 
> because it's not happened before, but partially because we risk nasty loops.

If we fail since we have to in the "dependency isn't ready" case then
the warning seems quite useless. I'll send a patch in a seperate mail
to remove the warning.

-jang