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

[Tejun Heo]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 07:29:56AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> It is for storage devices which always have guaranteed synchronous
> probing on module load and well-defined probing order.  Sure, modern
> setups are a lot more dynamic but I'm quite certain that there are
> setups in the wild which depend on storage driver loading being
> synchronous.  We can't simply declare one day that such behavior is
> broken and break, most likely, their boots.

To add a bit, if the argument here is that dependency on such behavior
shouldn't exist and module loading and device probing should always be
asynchronous, the right approach is implementing "synchronous_probing"
flag not the other way around.  I actually wouldn't hate to see that
change happening but whoever submits and routes such a change should
be ready for a major shitstorm, I'm afraid.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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