Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Sep 2014 08:32:03 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM |
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Hey,
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:22:42PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > I don't get it. This is a behavior userland already depends on for > > boots. What's there to agree or disagree? This is just a fact that > > we can't do this w/o disturbing some userlands in a major way. > > I am just expressing my disbelief that somebody relies on module loading > being synchronous with probing. Out of curiosity, do you have any > pointers?
I've seen initrd scripts which depended on the behavior to wait for storage devices over the years. AFAIK, none of the modern distros does it but this has been such a basic feature all along and it seems highly unlikely to me that there's no userland remaining out there depending on such behavior. We do have a lot of different userlands, many of them quite ad-hoc.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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