Re: kmod freezes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 19:33:36 +0100 (BST)


> >I don't believe that preventing that configuration in the first place is
> >an answer, because maybe one day we'll have the printer driver trying to
> >set itself up with a lowlevel parport driver each time an open() is done
> >on an lp device if it failed at initialisation time.
>
> Preventing that configuration is probably a good idea in terms of 2.2, since I
> doubt we can make it work properly in that timeframe. Whether that's possible
> or not is another question.

Fixing kmod is not very hard. request_module() simply needs to start

if(!kmod_started)
return -EBUSY;

Alan

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