Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:46:11 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12 initrd module loading seems parallel on bootup |
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"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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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