Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:43:51 +1000 | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: Deadlock patch for kmod |
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On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:34:10AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote: > Hi, Linus. Below is a small patch that should fix a nasty deadlock > with kmod: if a modprobe initiated by kmod does something that > triggers another module load request via kmod, we have a deadlock. I > hope I've got the process killing semantics correct.
Is this the same problem that prevents the module probve for scsi_hostadapter not to work. I've checked and the call is being made, but modprobe just never gets called. I presumed it was because the initailisation of one module is calling another.
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