From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758764Ab3APQW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:22:58 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:36047 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758737Ab3APQWo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:22:44 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,480,1355126400"; d="scan'208";a="274537025" Message-ID: <50F6D3D2.3020407@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:22:42 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Tejun Heo , Ming Lei , Alex Riesen , Alan Stern , Jens Axboe , USB list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH] module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used References: <20130115183204.GE2668@htj.dyndns.org> <20130115235043.GJ2668@htj.dyndns.org> <20130116025251.GM2668@htj.dyndns.org> <20130116032502.GN2668@htj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > But no, it's not just some trivial one-liner. Especially the question > about "when to try to load the module that is given on the kernel > command line" is not trivial. Do we require that the module is in the > initrd and loadable basically immediate at boot? Do we try again after > switching the root filesystem? Things like that.. to load it from the root fs you tend to need... an elevator ;-) I think it's pretty fair to users to say that if you want something by default at boot time, you need to build it in... but for us to try a modprobe from the initrd is not too bad I suppose. probably need to do this around the time we initialize the block layer