Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:30:13 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
       gombasg@sztaki.hu, tytso@mit.edu, torvalds@osdl.org,
       kay.sievers@suse.de, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, bunk@stusta.de,
       rml@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:19:44PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:54:10AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Yes, I tend to think that insmod should just block until all devices are
> > ready to be used.  insmod doesn't just "insert a module".  It runs that
> > module's init function.
> 
> Not always possible.  In the case of PCMCIA, we've had to run things
> asynchronously because of the #$@$#@ driver model locking issues -
> otherwise adding a PCI (cardbus) device while we're in the probe for
> the yenta device deadlocked.

That issue should be fixed now :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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