From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:23:30 +0100
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> People always think that their magical code is so important. I tell
> you up-front that is absolutely is not. Just remove the crap entirely,
> please.

Even if he does remove it, that still leaves the problem that modprobe can be
invoked and fail before tty_init() gets called:-/

I wonder if tty_init() should be moved up, perhaps to immediately after
chrdev_init().

David