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SubjectRe: current linus bk, error mounting root
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
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> > I don't agree that this is a userspace issue. It's just not sane for a
> > driver to be in an unusable state for an arbitrary length of time after
> > modprobe returns.
>
> It is a userspace issue. If you have a static /dev there are no
> problems, right? If you use udev, you need to wait for the device node
> to show up, it will not be there right after modprobe returns.

OK, that's different.

(grumble, mutter)

It would be very convenient, tidy and sane if we _could_ arrange for
modprobe to block until the device node appears though. I think devfs can
do that ;)

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