Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:44:30 -0700 | Subject | Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait() |
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> wrote: > > If that unfortunate module_init() lockup can't be solved properly in > the kernel
Stop this idiocy.
The kernel doesn't have a lockup problem. udev does.
As even you admit, it is *udev* that has the whole serialization issue, and does excessive (and incorrect) serialization between events. Resulting in the kernel timing out a udev event that takes too long.
The fact that you then continually try to make this a "kernel issue" is just disgusting. Talking about the kernel solving it "properly" is pretty dishonest, when the kernel wasn't the problem in the first place. The kernel not only does things right, but this all used to work fine.
Linus
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