Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:11:49 +0100
From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>, Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>,
       Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
       "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>,
       lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: modprobe + request_module() deadlock
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:02:31PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:52 +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > > Delaying request_module() sounds ugly. Anyway, if you can
> > > get it to work reliably...
> > 
> > I think I can, havn't tried yet through.
> 
> I still don't really like it as a solution,

I don't either, but loading modules unconditionally even if not needed
(especially if they pull in the complete dvb subsystem) isn't very nice
as well.

I'm open to other suggestions ...

> but this patch (pending anyway) should help.

Thanks.

  Gerd

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