Re: 2.6.14, udev: unknown symbols for ehci_hcd

[Rusty Russell]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 19:48 +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > I've got these messages several times on the experimental SUSE too,
> > but can't reproduce it so far, even without Rusty's patch to modprobe
> > they have disappeared. See here for the details:
> >   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=333052
> 
> 
> Just to let you know, I've also met this problem (on another distro), 
> and did not know about this bugreport until now.
> So I've done another workaround: modprobe already parses /proc/modules 
> to check whether the modules needed are already loaded, and this file 
> also shows us the state of the modules, being "Loading", "Live" or 
> "Unloading".
> 
> With my patch, modprobe waits until the needed modules come out of the 
> "Loading" or "Unloading" state.

Yes, this was going to be my solution.  However, we only need to resort
to this is locking fails (read-only root filesystem).

Rusty.
-- 
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman

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