Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751429AbWBVUs2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:48:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751431AbWBVUs2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:48:28 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:6595 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751429AbWBVUs1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:48:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:44:28 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Joel.Becker@oracle.com, gombasg@sztaki.hu, tytso@mit.edu, kay.sievers@suse.de, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de, rml@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions Message-Id: <20060222124428.4808b12e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <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> <20060222162533.GA30316@thunk.org> <20060222173354.GJ14447@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> <20060222185923.GL16648@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20060222115410.1394ff82.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 17 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > For example, say that you have more than just a couple of disks attached > to the system, but many of them are for non-critical stuff. You do not > necessarily want to wait for them all to spin up at all. You usually only > care about one of them - the root device. Well yes, but I was suggesting that userspace be given the option - run insmod asynchronously if it's a problem. It all does indicate that our single module_init(no args) interface is too coarse... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/