On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:57:40PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > The userspace opens major 5 minor 1. The kernel has no driver mapped to > that so the kernel asks user space to load a module of its choice for It has. It really has it. It was not yet initialized though because, because, because... Hmm, userspace code started and built-in kernel subsystem was not yet initialized. > major 5 minor 1. What user space does with that is and has always been a > problem for user space. > > User space is quite at liberty to go .. 5,1 and I have a serial console > I want to load 8250_pci please. > > What it must not do is try and re-open it again and again and again. Heh, init is not allowed to write something to the console or any other tty? -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
