Re: Deadlock patch for kmod

Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:43:51 +1000

On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:34:10AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Hi, Linus. Below is a small patch that should fix a nasty deadlock
> with kmod: if a modprobe initiated by kmod does something that
> triggers another module load request via kmod, we have a deadlock. I
> hope I've got the process killing semantics correct.

Is this the same problem that prevents the module probve for
scsi_hostadapter not to work. I've checked and the call is being made, but
modprobe just never gets called. I presumed it was because the
initailisation of one module is calling another.

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