Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:03:49 +0300 | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | Subject | Re: Runaway loop with the current git. |
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:57:40PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > The userspace opens major 5 minor 1. The kernel has no driver mapped to > that so the kernel asks user space to load a module of its choice for
It has. It really has it. It was not yet initialized though because, because, because... Hmm, userspace code started and built-in kernel subsystem was not yet initialized.
> major 5 minor 1. What user space does with that is and has always been a > problem for user space. > > User space is quite at liberty to go .. 5,1 and I have a serial console > I want to load 8250_pci please. > > What it must not do is try and re-open it again and again and again.
Heh, init is not allowed to write something to the console or any other tty?
-- Evgeniy Polyakov
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