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From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
To: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about raw(1)
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Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 14:32:24 -0400
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Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de> writes:
> I'm just curious, would this always work?: 
>
>   modprobe raw
>   raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/xyz
>
> or should you wait for /dev/raw/rawctl after modprobe (udevadm settle or 
> sleep)?

Interesting -- the modprobe manual page doesn't state explicitly whether
or not the module initialization actions will be completed before
modprobe returns.

Dale