From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Evgeniy Polyakov" <zbr@ioremap.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Runaway loop with the current git.
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:23:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081207112335.0afd5192@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510812061956g6bb422d9r7c8032fb68552b4c@mail.gmail.com>
> This modprobe process does try to log an error, accesses /dev/console,
> which is not initialized in the kernel at that time, and the kernel
> module loader tries the load a module to support dev_t 5:1, which
> again runs modprobe, and ...
So we have a buggy modprobe...
>
> Setting CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y makes it disapper. The patch I sent
> seems to fix it.
>
> The bug is handled here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12153
We cannot go re-ordering random chunks of kernel init with unpredictable
effects including possibly making other stuff less reliable (because you
set up the console device before the console driver is loaded on a PCI
bus device). And we certainly can't do it this close to a release.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-07 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-05 18:03 Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-05 18:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-05 18:32 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-05 19:27 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-05 19:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-05 21:12 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-05 21:17 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-05 21:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-06 2:10 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-06 16:09 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-06 16:16 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-06 16:56 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-06 18:11 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-06 19:32 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-06 20:26 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 3:56 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 4:31 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 11:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-12-07 11:45 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 11:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 13:10 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 14:02 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 15:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 14:49 ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-07 15:14 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 15:55 ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-07 16:03 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 16:09 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 16:21 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:03 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 17:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:29 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 16:31 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 17:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:13 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 17:17 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 17:22 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 17:28 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:39 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 17:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 18:22 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-08 3:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-12-08 3:56 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 17:44 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 17:52 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 17:54 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-07 18:03 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 18:13 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 18:15 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 18:21 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 18:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 19:02 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-07 20:00 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 22:26 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-08 1:18 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-08 3:35 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-09 1:09 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-09 2:00 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-09 10:13 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 16:33 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-08 13:06 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-09 0:42 ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-08 13:22 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-06 0:29 ` Alan Cox
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