Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:35:55 +0100 (MET) | From | Romano Giannetti <> | Subject | Re: Bad interaction dosemu - kerneld? |
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On 19 Dec 1996, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>>>> "Romano" == Romano Giannetti <romano@iet.unipi.it> writes: > > Romano> Hi all! > [resume: it seems that kerneld try to load the floppy module 11 or so times when dosemu try to access floppy; the first time dosemu gives error and then all works well] > > This is caused, it seems, by a rough spot in the kernel<->kerneld > interface. The kernel appears to service the synchronouse read > request asynchronously so it doesn't block while kerneld is loading > the module. And kerneld isn't smart enough to stop multiple load of > the same module, happening. > > But don't expect this to get ironed out for until sometime in 2.1.xx > as it doesn't cause stability problems, just error messages. Is > someone considering this?
Well, I suspected some interaction of this kinfd, actually. But: with my older setup, kernel 2.0.20 (more or less ...) and dosemu 0.64.0.xx with xx high (I cannot say exactly, it was a release near to 0.64.1) I never noticed it. It seemed to work correctly. well, it's possible that in the las tthree months I managed to use floppy from dosemu only shortly after using it from the shell... really I do not use the floppy too much.
> > The only true bug that I have observed with this setup is that with > once I got it two load the floppy module twice. One of which stuck in > the intializing state. If you don't see that with lsmod I wouldn't > worry.
No, I never saw this. Weel, thank you for the info. I think I will compile in floppy module :-).
Thanks and Merry Xmas, Romano
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