Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:19:07 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Plans for mISDN? Was: [PATCH 00/14] [ISDN] ... |
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> that is not a big problem at all. If you have to enforce a specific > module load order then create some dummy exports like misdn_load() and > use them from the module that depends on it.
That's not necessarily enough. There are races during module load when the next module is loaded already before the module it depends on has finished initializing.
I regularly run into such a problem on my workstation with one of the USB serial drivers for example. It errors out when autoloaded during boot, but loads fine on retry later.
-Andi
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