When a process opens a device file for which no module is currently loaded
and then the process receives a signal while the kerneld is loading the
module, the open() returns with ENODEV before the module is loaded. kerneld
will continue (and succeed) to load the module, but then the open() has
already returned and it's too late.
It's possible to work around this by blocking the offending signal before
the open() and unblocking it afterwards, but IMHO the kernel should block
all signals itself before telling kerneld to load the module.
BTW, this happens with Linux 1.3.57 and modutils 1.3.57.
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