From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755050AbZBIQfo (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:35:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752625AbZBIQfe (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:35:34 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:42843 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751549AbZBIQfd (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:35:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:34:56 -0200 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, jkosina@suse.cz, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] use the new request_module_nowait() in drivers/media Message-ID: <20090209143456.1c5d7f0b@pedra.chehab.org> In-Reply-To: <20090208110052.6f3deafc@infradead.org> References: <20090208104201.6124ab6a@infradead.org> <20090208104314.4e74e6a8@infradead.org> <20090208110052.6f3deafc@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 Sun, 8 Feb 2009 11:00:52 -0800 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 10:43:14 -0800 > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > blargh I sent an older version of this patch > I meant to send this one > > From 2311993ceed96ec0bb023419120d9aeada205242 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Arjan van de Ven > Subject: [PATCH] use the new request_module_nowait() in drivers/media > > Several drivers/media/video drivers use keventd to load modules > to avoid the "load a module from the module init code" deadlock. > > Now that we have request_module_nowait() this can be simplified > greatly. > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cheers, Mauro