Re: Race condition in module load causing undefined symbols

From: Pozsár Balázs
Date: Wed Jun 15 2005 - 06:39:16 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:28:00AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Pozsár Balázs wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:23:04PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> >
> >>The second fix, and again you must do this if you're developing 2.6.12,
> >>is to *update the mkinitrd package* which has a new version of /bin/sh.
> >
> >
> >This sounds insane to me. I am using bash in my initrd, does this mean
> >that every shell and whatever has to be updated? Exactly what
> >modifications has to be made?
> >
> >
>
> If you're using bash, I would suggest starting with an update of the bash
> package.

Well, I'm using 3.0 and afaik there's no newer version, but I don't
think this is the problem either.

Exactlywhat modifications have to be made and to what to work around
this kernel regression?


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pozsy
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