Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751428AbWBVUrY (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:47:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751429AbWBVUrY (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:47:24 -0500 Received: from hierophant.serpentine.com ([66.92.13.71]:41897 "EHLO demesne.serpentine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751428AbWBVUrX (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:47:23 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Joel Becker Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Kay Sievers , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de, rml@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20060222154820.GJ16648@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <1140383653.11403.8.camel@localhost> <20060220010205.GB22738@suse.de> <1140562261.11278.6.camel@localhost> <20060221225718.GA12480@vrfy.org> <20060221153305.5d0b123f.akpm@osdl.org> <20060222000429.GB12480@vrfy.org> <20060221162104.6b8c35b1.akpm@osdl.org> <20060222112158.GB26268@thunk.org> <20060222154820.GJ16648@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:47:31 -0800 Message-Id: <1140641251.9011.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 (2.5.4-2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 07:48 -0800, Joel Becker wrote: > Do you mean that you are using a distro (eg, RHEL4 or something) > with a mainline kernel? We've seen something similar, and what we've > determined is happening is that insmod is returning before the module is > done initializing. Yep, we've seen this with other SCSI drivers. Our solution was to add a "sleep 15" after each modprobe in the initrd, since SCSI drivers often take a while to pull their thumbs out.