Re: Current saa7134 driver breaks KNC One Tv-Station DVR (card=24)

From: Johannes Stezenbach
Date: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 09:18:45 EST


On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:29:47PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 03:08 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > I've reported this before:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/11/17/275
> >
> > The patch that Rusty posted doesn't seem to have it made into
> > module-init-tools-3.1. Bummer :-(
>
> Because it was a dumb idea, as your reply showed. You can't load any
> dependent modules because this module is not initialized yet (what if
> you loaded a module that depended on you, then failed your
> initialization?). Gerd has the real fix, IIRC.

Yeah, but IMHO it would be better if modprobe would bail out
with an error instead of just hanging. For me hotplug
loads the drivers at boot time and it's a bad good thing if
the whole boot process hangs.

Johannes
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