Re: [PATCH 3/3] use the new request_module_nowait() in drivers/media

Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-02-09T16:35:44Z

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 11:00:52 -0800
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 10:43:14 -0800
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> blargh I sent an older version of this patch
> I meant to send this one
>
> From 2311993ceed96ec0bb023419120d9aeada205242 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] use the new request_module_nowait() in drivers/media
>
> Several drivers/media/video drivers use keventd to load modules
> to avoid the "load a module from the module init code" deadlock.
>
> Now that we have request_module_nowait() this can be simplified
> greatly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

Cheers,
Mauro