Re: Recent 2.3.x kernels hang on startup

Brent M. Smith (smitten@nextreality.net)
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:21:03 -0800 (PST)


I would really like to see that patch go into the main distribution... It
seems I've run into the problem several times, and I definitely don't
think an infinite loop is desirable behavior.

Is there any disadvantage to putting a limit on the the number of
concurrent modprobe's run by kmod? Certainly on a heavily modularized
system the number may be higher... However couldn't the limit be set to a
reasonably high number, which wouldn't occur under heavy module load, but
would occur under a circular dependency loop?

Just my opinion.... Thanks for listening.

-- 
    Brent M. Smith, <smitten@nextreality.net>
    http://www.nextreality.net/

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