Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754556AbYLGLXm (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 06:23:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753515AbYLGLXd (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 06:23:33 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:55930 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753481AbYLGLXd (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 06:23:33 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:23:35 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: "Kay Sievers" Cc: "Evgeniy Polyakov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Runaway loop with the current git. Message-ID: <20081207112335.0afd5192@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20081205193432.290a6f1a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20081205212428.GB8075@ioremap.net> <20081206160927.GA498@ioremap.net> <20081206165634.GA2516@ioremap.net> <1228591926.3808.6.camel@nga> <20081206202620.GA9470@ioremap.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.12; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 24 > This modprobe process does try to log an error, accesses /dev/console, > which is not initialized in the kernel at that time, and the kernel > module loader tries the load a module to support dev_t 5:1, which > again runs modprobe, and ... So we have a buggy modprobe... > > Setting CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y makes it disapper. The patch I sent > seems to fix it. > > The bug is handled here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12153 We cannot go re-ordering random chunks of kernel init with unpredictable effects including possibly making other stuff less reliable (because you set up the console device before the console driver is loaded on a PCI bus device). And we certainly can't do it this close to a release. Alan -- 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/