Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753426AbYLFSMB (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:12:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751138AbYLFSLx (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:11:53 -0500 Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.182]:38437 "EHLO ik-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751127AbYLFSLw (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:11:52 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 19:11:50 +0100 From: "Kay Sievers" To: "Evgeniy Polyakov" Subject: Re: Runaway loop with the current git. Cc: "Alan Cox" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20081206165634.GA2516@ioremap.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081205181610.518ecd13@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20081205192755.GA27712@ioremap.net> <20081205193432.290a6f1a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20081205211223.GA8075@ioremap.net> <20081205212428.GB8075@ioremap.net> <20081206160927.GA498@ioremap.net> <20081206165634.GA2516@ioremap.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 25 On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 17:56, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 05:16:06PM +0100, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) wrote: >> So the loop is probably a modprobe itself that tries to access >> /dev/console. Is there a different argument for the very first >> modprobe which is called? Which may be the one that triggers the loop. > > Hard to tell, I did not see anything but modprobe before and after > runaway loop message, but it could be missed though, I will tell > for sure only this Monday. Sounds good. It seems the /dev/console driver is registered only after all the pci, video, acpi, ... drivers, so it's not surprising, that if any of these driver in these subsystems calls request_module(), or a process in initramfs tries to access the "dead" /dev/console node, things will go wrong. Thanks, Kay -- 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/