On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 19:15, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Yes, log nowhere instead of running in a loop would be much better >> than loading a 5:1 driver which will never exist as a module. > > The loop is detected and terminated. No. Please back up what you are trying to talk about. >> > Why is this useful - you now get failing module loads producing no >> > diagnostics and in many case the setup just dying silently. >> >> It's obviously more useful than not to boot up. > > What makes you think it will now boot up. The loop is already detected > and terminated. What will you do if it doesn't and you get no > diagnostics. How will distributions debug those reports in bugzilla. The boxes of the reporters hang! Read the bug! Please! >> No, the pci driver will never get loaded by modprobe 5:1, > > Why not ? You have no idea how the other millions of Linux users have > their module loading rules configured. A change which breaks this > behaviour is a regression. There is no cheap way out of the problem, it's a kernel bug, and we will fix it - you may just delay it with your zero arguments. Kay -- 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
