From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Evgeniy Polyakov" <zbr@ioremap.net>,
"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Linux Crypto Mailing List" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Runaway loop with the current git.
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:15:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081207181559.63549cfc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510812071013o5d9f3319i44fb7f54b17025ca@mail.gmail.com>
> Yes, log nowhere instead of running in a loop would be much better
> than loading a 5:1 driver which will never exist as a module.
The loop is detected and terminated.
>
> > Why is this useful - you now get failing module loads producing no
> > diagnostics and in many case the setup just dying silently.
>
> It's obviously more useful than not to boot up.
What makes you think it will now boot up. The loop is already detected
and terminated. What will you do if it doesn't and you get no
diagnostics. How will distributions debug those reports in bugzilla.
> No, the pci driver will never get loaded by modprobe 5:1,
Why not ? You have no idea how the other millions of Linux users have
their module loading rules configured. A change which breaks this
behaviour is a regression.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-07 18:16 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
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 [this message]
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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