Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Aug 05 2010 - 22:24:01 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> People always think that their magical code is so important. I tell
> you up-front that is absolutely is not. Just remove the crap entirely,
> please.

Even if he does remove it, that still leaves the problem that modprobe can be
invoked and fail before tty_init() gets called:-/

I wonder if tty_init() should be moved up, perhaps to immediately after
chrdev_init().

David
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