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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A workaround for request_firmware() stuck in module_init
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:08:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hvcfsiehx.wl%tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKi4VAKBDPnYak9j0AwGXcnUnxNMEtUww+cQ8b_RD_Ea+hH5tQ@mail.gmail.com>

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@suse.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

      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-05 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-04 13:06 A workaround for request_firmware() stuck in module_init Takashi Iwai
2012-09-04 15:52 ` Ming Lei
2012-09-04 16:10   ` Takashi Iwai
2012-09-05  1:15     ` Ming Lei
2012-09-05  5:53       ` Takashi Iwai
2012-09-05 11:32         ` Ming Lei
2012-09-05 13:03           ` Alan Cox
2012-09-05 14:01             ` Takashi Iwai
2012-09-05 15:22             ` Ming Lei
2012-09-05 16:30               ` Alan Cox
2012-09-05 21:08                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-09-05 23:18                   ` Alan Cox
2012-09-06  5:06                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-09-06  2:47                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-06  4:12                 ` Ming Lei
2012-09-06 12:59                   ` Alan Cox
2012-09-06 15:38                     ` Ming Lei
2012-09-05 16:59             ` Lucas De Marchi
2012-09-05 17:09               ` Takashi Iwai
2012-09-05 16:51 ` Lucas De Marchi
2012-09-05 17:08   ` Takashi Iwai [this message]

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