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

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Mon Sep 08 2014 - 21:26:32 EST


On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:10:59AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> I'm not too convinced this is such a difficult problem to figure out.
>> We already have most of logic in place and the only thing missing is
>> how to switch it. Wouldn't something like the following work?
>>
>> * Add a sysctl knob to enable asynchronous device probing on module
>> load and enable asynchronous probing globally if the knob is set.
>
> Alternatively, add a module-generic param "async_probe" or whatever
> and use that to switch the behavior should work too. I don't know
> which way is better but either should work fine.

I take it by this you meant a generic system-wide sysctl or kernel cmd
line option to enable this for al drivers?

Luis
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