Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Sep 08 2014 - 21:22:41 EST


On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:10:59AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I'm not too convinced this is such a difficult problem to figure out.
> We already have most of logic in place and the only thing missing is
> how to switch it. Wouldn't something like the following work?
>
> * Add a sysctl knob to enable asynchronous device probing on module
> load and enable asynchronous probing globally if the knob is set.

Alternatively, add a module-generic param "async_probe" or whatever
and use that to switch the behavior should work too. I don't know
which way is better but either should work fine.

Thanks.

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tejun
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