Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 15:46:13 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For example, say that you have more than just a couple of disks attached
> to the system, but many of them are for non-critical stuff. You do not
> necessarily want to wait for them all to spin up at all. You usually only
> care about one of them - the root device.

Well yes, but I was suggesting that userspace be given the option - run
insmod asynchronously if it's a problem.

It all does indicate that our single module_init(no args) interface is too
coarse...
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