From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: Runaway loop with the current git. Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:03:49 +0300 Message-ID: <20081207170349.GA472@ioremap.net> References: <20081207112335.0afd5192@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20081207155507.GA15355@gondor.apana.org.au> <20081207160921.693f637a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20081207165740.2c4bbb0d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Kay Sievers , Herbert Xu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Crypto Mailing List To: Alan Cox Return-path: Received: from tservice.net.ru ([195.178.208.66]:35945 "EHLO tservice.net.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753525AbYLGRDv (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:03:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081207165740.2c4bbb0d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:57:40PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > The userspace opens major 5 minor 1. The kernel has no driver mapped to > that so the kernel asks user space to load a module of its choice for It has. It really has it. It was not yet initialized though because, because, because... Hmm, userspace code started and built-in kernel subsystem was not yet initialized. > major 5 minor 1. What user space does with that is and has always been a > problem for user space. > > User space is quite at liberty to go .. 5,1 and I have a serial console > I want to load 8250_pci please. > > What it must not do is try and re-open it again and again and again. Heh, init is not allowed to write something to the console or any other tty? -- Evgeniy Polyakov