Re: insmoding aha152x never returns in 2.3.33

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:58:46 -0300

Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> said:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> > Why 'mount' with kmod fails loading the imm module without go to an
> > uninterruptible sleep, but insmod do it?

> Well, what is the error? I expect that kmod doesn't know which module to
> load (do you have a scsi_lowlevel alias in modules.conf?).

I have both scsi_lowlevel (is that one really needed?!) and
scsi_hostadapter there. On 2.3.34pre2, i686, egcs-1.1.2,
binutils-2.9.5.0.22 an "mdir z:" hangs:

[vonbrand@sleipnir vonbrand]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
ppa 9532 (initializing)
parport_pc 14324 1 (autoclean)
parport 26784 1 (autoclean) [ppa parport_pc]
sd_mod 10412 (initializing)
scsi_mod 64540 0 (autoclean) [ppa sd_mod]
floppy 45644 0 (autoclean)
slip 7800 0 (autoclean)
via-rhine 9720 1 (autoclean)

[vonbrand@sleipnir vonbrand]$ ps lp 5991
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
100 0 5991 1042 0 0 1284 500 wait4 S pts/1 0:00 mdir z:

Even so, kmod does load lp and prints normally.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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