From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: jonsmirl@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: current linus bk, error mounting root
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:43:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050321164318.04a5dc82.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050322003807.GA10180@kroah.com>
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't agree that this is a userspace issue. It's just not sane for a
> > driver to be in an unusable state for an arbitrary length of time after
> > modprobe returns.
>
> It is a userspace issue. If you have a static /dev there are no
> problems, right? If you use udev, you need to wait for the device node
> to show up, it will not be there right after modprobe returns.
OK, that's different.
(grumble, mutter)
It would be very convenient, tidy and sane if we _could_ arrange for
modprobe to block until the device node appears though. I think devfs can
do that ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-09 17:03 Jon Smirl
2005-03-09 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-09 18:23 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-09 20:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-09 20:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-09 20:51 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-09 21:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 1:16 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 7:50 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 14:58 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 15:31 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 15:45 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 15:48 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 15:59 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 16:01 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 16:18 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 16:29 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 18:40 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 18:52 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-11 3:11 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-11 3:18 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-15 15:39 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-15 15:47 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-09 20:34 ` Steven Cole
[not found] ` <20050321154131.30616ed0.akpm@osdl.org>
[not found] ` <9e473391050321155735fc506d@mail.gmail.com>
2005-03-22 0:19 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 0:38 ` Greg KH
2005-03-22 0:43 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-22 0:49 ` Greg KH
2005-03-22 0:57 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-22 4:02 ` Greg KH
2005-03-22 1:13 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-22 0:53 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-22 4:03 ` Greg KH
2005-03-22 0:47 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-22 1:14 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-22 4:02 ` Greg KH
2005-03-12 13:15 Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-03-12 19:56 ` Jon Smirl
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