linux-kernel - Re: Runaway loop with the current git.

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Message-ID: <20081207170349.GA472@ioremap.net>
Date:	Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:03:49 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Runaway loop with the current git.

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:57:40PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@...rguk.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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