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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Runaway loop with the current git.
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:03:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081207170349.GA472@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081207165740.2c4bbb0d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:57:40PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
> The userspace opens major 5 minor 1. The kernel has no driver mapped to
> that so the kernel asks user space to load a module of its choice for

It has. It really has it. It was not yet initialized though because,
because, because... Hmm, userspace code started and built-in kernel
subsystem was not yet initialized.

> major 5 minor 1. What user space does with that is and has always been a
> problem for user space.
> 
> User space is quite at liberty to go .. 5,1  and I have a serial console
> I want to load 8250_pci please.
> 
> What it must not do is try and re-open it again and again and again.

Heh, init is not allowed to write something to the console or any other
tty?

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-07 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-05 18:03 Runaway loop with the current git Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-05 18:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-05 18:32   ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-05 19:27     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-05 19:34       ` Alan Cox
2008-12-05 21:12         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-05 21:17           ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-05 21:24             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-06  2:10               ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-06 16:09                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-06 16:16                   ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-06 16:56                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-06 18:11                       ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-06 19:32                         ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-06 20:26                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07  3:56                             ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07  4:31                               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 11:23                               ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 11:45                                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 11:58                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 13:10                                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 14:02                                 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 15:08                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 14:49                                 ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-07 15:14                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 15:55                                   ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-07 16:03                                     ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 16:09                                       ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 16:21                                         ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 16:57                                           ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:03                                             ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2008-12-07 17:24                                               ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:29                                                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 16:31                                         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 17:01                                           ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:13                                             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 17:17                                             ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 17:22                                             ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 17:28                                               ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:39                                                 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 17:51                                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 18:22                                                     ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-08  3:23                                                       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-12-08  3:56                                                         ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 17:44                                                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 17:52                                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:54                                                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 18:03                                                       ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 18:13                                                         ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 18:15                                                           ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 18:21                                                             ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 18:31                                                               ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 19:02                                                                 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 20:00                                                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 22:26                                                                     ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-08  1:18                                                                       ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-08  3:35                                                                         ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-09  1:09                                                                           ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-09  2:00                                                                             ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-09 10:13                                                                             ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 16:33                                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-08 13:06                                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-09  0:42                                       ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-08 13:22                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-06  0:29           ` Alan Cox

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