Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Apr 2003 01:52:53 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release |
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Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> wrote: > > > > The pipe/socket solution is probably better anyway, I was just > > wondering why /sbin/hotplug wasn't serialized from the start. > > It was. Deadlocks happened and the semaphore was removed. > I don't remember details. They might be in the archives. >
register_netdevice() is called under rtnl_lock. It calls net_run_sbin_hotplug() which ends up waiting on ifconfig. But ifconfig needs rtnl_lock.
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