netdev - Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM

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Date:	Sat, 6 Sep 2014 08:32:03 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM

Hey,

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:22:42PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > I don't get it.  This is a behavior userland already depends on for
> > boots.  What's there to agree or disagree?  This is just a fact that
> > we can't do this w/o disturbing some userlands in a major way.
> 
> I am just expressing my disbelief that somebody relies on module loading
> being synchronous with probing. Out of curiosity, do you have any
> pointers?

I've seen initrd scripts which depended on the behavior to wait for
storage devices over the years.  AFAIK, none of the modern distros
does it but this has been such a basic feature all along and it seems
highly unlikely to me that there's no userland remaining out there
depending on such behavior.  We do have a lot of different userlands,
many of them quite ad-hoc.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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