From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752189AbYCLHg5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:36:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751229AbYCLHgt (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:36:49 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57684 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750985AbYCLHgt (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:36:49 -0400 Subject: Re: physmap and "request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1" From: David Woodhouse To: Andrew Morton Cc: Gordon Farquharson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org In-Reply-To: <20080311225926.6515e18c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <97a0a9ac0803112235l157706adoa84b131549a46049@mail.gmail.com> <20080311225926.6515e18c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:36:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1205307411.2592.120.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This solution would require simply changing the parser configuration > > options to bool in drivers/mtd/Kconfig. Is there a reason to allow the > > parsing code to be built as a module? > > That sounds reasonable. I have no particular objection to that. But shouldn't we call af_unix_init() earlier if modprobe doesn't run without it? > I'd suggest that you make your own decision as to what is the best fix, then > send a patch. Please cc me on it and I'll make sure that it gets > appropriately handled. This may take a bit of time, as the MTD patch > backlog is rather large at present. Yeah, things have been interesting. But I get to spend a whole three weeks at home, starting next week. So feel free to LART me if I don't catch up. Thanks, again, for your help in making sure things don't fall through the cracks. -- dwmw2