Messages in this thread | | | From | Lucas De Marchi <> | Date | Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:51:27 -0300 | Subject | Re: A workaround for request_firmware() stuck in module_init |
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote: > Hi, > > as I've got recently a few bug reports regarding the stuck with > request_firmware() in module_init of some sound drivers, I started > looking at the issue. Strangely, the problem doesn't happen on > openSUSE 12.2 although it has the same udev version with libkmod as > Fedora. So I installed Fedora 17, and indeed I could see a problem > there.
I fail to see how this is related to libkmod. It's indeed related to the fact that udev now timeout a modprobe request so people stop doing crazy things and like start daemons as modprobe's install rules. And that's true even with old module-init-tools.
Lucas De Marchi
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