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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:25:31 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jkosina@...e.cz, mchehab@...radead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] module: create a request_module_nowait() On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:02:17 +1030 Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote: > On Monday 09 February 2009 05:12:01 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > This patch changes this to use a request_module_nowait() function > > macro instead, which just fires the modprobe off but doesn't wait > > for it, and thus avoids the original deadlock entirely. > > Nice, applied. Made one change; I've taken to using the new-fangled > bool type for flag args, for slight extra clarity. > > (Which uncovered another interesting issue, which lead to several more > patches). > for this case that's a bit unfortunate though. the call usermode helper code takes 3 values, -1, 0 and 1. Right now the code only uses 0 and 1, but I've been looking at using -1 as well in this exact codepath in case there is a problem with the 0 option (the 0 option waits for the exec but not the result, the -1 waits for nothing) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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