From: David Miller Subject: Re: Fixing gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c. Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:23:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100319.222325.260105122.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100320010849.GA30654@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100320042103.GB5127@jenkins> <20100320042434.GA32294@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: brandon@ifup.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45938 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752244Ab0CTFXD (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:23:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100320042434.GA32294@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Herbert Xu Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:24:34 +0800 > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:21:03PM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote: >> >> Do you see how it is getting stuck though with modprobe bnx2 and >> modprobe libcrc32c going at the same time though? > > Yes I agree that's a bug. Something in those paths should simply > fail instead of waiting around. I hear what you're saying Herbert, but thinking about this a bit I really think we should make this situation work instead of fail.