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SubjectRe: A workaround for request_firmware() stuck in module_init
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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