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

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:57:28PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > I think we
> > just should make exceptions sensible so that it works fine in practice
> > for now (and I don't think that'd be too hard).  So, the only
> > cooperation necessary from userland would be just saying "I don't
> > wanna wait for device probing on module load."
> 
> But we're talking about drivers that have a flag that says 'you gotta
> wait sucker', what do we want systemd to do then? I'd be happy if it'd
> would not send the sigkill for these drivers, for example.

Hah?  Can you give me an example?  I'm having hard time imagining a
driver with such requirement given our current driver core
implementation.

Thanks.

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tejun
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