From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Darryl L. Miles" <darryl@netbauds.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Trefzer <ctrefzer@web.de>,
Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.12 initrd module loading seems parallel on bootup
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:46:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050625234611.118b391d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42BDFEC2.3030004@netbauds.net>
"Darryl L. Miles" <darryl@netbauds.net> wrote:
>
> [ modules getting loaded out-of-order and in parallel from initrd ]
>
On June 7, Martin Wilck reported:
> It turned out to be a problem with Red Hat's nash that didn't check the
> returned pid in it's wait4() call and thus ended up insmod'ing mutliple
> modules simultaneously, leading to "Unkown symbol" errors. Yuck, it took
> me a day figure that out.
>
> That bug is fixed in redhat's "mkinitrd" package 4.2.0.3-1 and later,
> but that package is currently only in Fedora's "Development" tree.
I'd like to know what changed in the kernel to make nash's behaviour
change. Martin, did you work that out?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-26 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-26 1:02 Darryl L. Miles
2005-06-26 3:53 ` Christian Trefzer
2005-06-26 6:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-06-26 9:26 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-06-26 11:53 ` Christian Trefzer
2005-06-26 10:06 ` Darryl L. Miles
2005-06-26 12:00 ` Christian Trefzer
2005-06-26 14:11 ` Toon van der Pas
2005-06-27 5:47 ` Darryl L. Miles
2005-06-29 23:39 ` Christian Trefzer
2005-06-30 8:45 ` Darryl L. Miles
2005-06-30 14:12 ` Christian Trefzer
2005-06-26 13:19 ` Parag Warudkar
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2005-06-27 6:24 ` Martin Wilck
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2005-06-25 22:09 Darryl L. Miles
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