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

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Date:	Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:23:35 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	"Evgeniy Polyakov" <zbr@...emap.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Runaway loop with the current git.

> This modprobe process does try to log an error, accesses /dev/console,
> which is not initialized in the kernel at that time, and the kernel
> module loader tries the load a module to support dev_t 5:1, which
> again runs modprobe, and ...

So we have a buggy modprobe... 

> 
> Setting CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y makes it disapper. The patch I sent
> seems to fix it.
> 
> The bug is handled here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12153

We cannot go re-ordering random chunks of kernel init with unpredictable
effects including possibly making other stuff less reliable (because you
set up the console device before the console driver is loaded on a PCI
bus device). And we certainly can't do it this close to a release.

Alan
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