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Message-ID: <s5hvcfsiehx.wl%tiwai@suse.de> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:08:42 +0200 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: A workaround for request_firmware() stuck in module_init At Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:51:27 -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.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. Hm, OK, then it must be my misinterpretation. Takashi -- 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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